add iniparser

Author: geraldb

README.md

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 - [props-activerecord](props-activerecord) - addon for database support (ConfDb, props model, etc.)
 
 
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+- [iniparser](iniparser) - read / parse INI configuration, settings and data files into a hash (incl. named subsections)
+
+
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 - [shell-lite](shell-lite) - run / execute shell commands
 

iniparser/.gitignore

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+*.gem
+*.rbc
+/.config
+/coverage/
+/InstalledFiles
+/pkg/
+/spec/reports/
+/test/tmp/
+/test/version_tmp/
+/tmp/
+
+## Specific to RubyMotion:
+.dat*
+.repl_history
+build/
+
+## Documentation cache and generated files:
+/.yardoc/
+/_yardoc/
+/doc/
+/rdoc/
+
+## Environment normalisation:
+/.bundle/
+/vendor/bundle
+/lib/bundler/man/
+
+# for a library or gem, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
+# intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
+# Gemfile.lock
+# .ruby-version
+# .ruby-gemset
+
+# unless supporting rvm < 1.11.0 or doing something fancy, ignore this:
+.rvmrc

iniparser/CHANGELOG.md

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+### 0.0.1 / 2017-06-29
+
+* Everything is new. First release.

iniparser/Manifest.txt

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+CHANGELOG.md
+LICENSE.md
+Manifest.txt
+README.md
+Rakefile
+lib/iniparser.rb
+lib/iniparser/parser.rb
+lib/iniparser/version.rb
+test/helper.rb
+test/test_parser.rb

iniparser/NOTES.md

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+# Notes
+
+## Todos
+
+
+
+## Formats
+
+- INI
+  - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file>
+- Git Config Format
+  - <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config>
+- TOML (Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language)
+  - Spec <https://github.com/toml-lang/toml>
+  - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOML>
+
+
+
+## Alternatives
+
+### Ruby
+
+- inifile <https://rubygems.org/gems/inifile>, source: <https://github.com/TwP/inifile>
+- iniparse <https://rubygems.org/gems/iniparse>, source: <https://github.com/antw/iniparse>
+- inih <https://rubygems.org/gems/inih>, source: <https://github.com/woodruffw/ruby-inih>
+  - <https://blog.yossarian.net/2017/07/21/Introducing-ruby-inih>
+
+Search rubygems with ini - <https://rubygems.org/search?query=ini>
+
+
+### Python
+
+- configparser - Python's Stdlib Configuration file parser - <https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html>
+
+
+### More
+
+- <https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Read_a_configuration_file>