A simple string parser with extremely permissive syntax
The point of this library is to be able to store and read information to and from a file in a format thats human readable and human editable. Similar to JSON, but a lot less complex, and with a much more forgiving syntax.
Health = 20;
Size = 32, 32;
Recovery = 0.5;
# this is a comment
Dead = false;
Name = Jimmy;
Backstory = /sI was once a warrior like you
Then I took an arrow to the knee # this is not a comment;
Basically, the syntax goes like this
name = value1, value2, value3;
stringLiteral = /sLiteraly, literal;
As long as every line follows these line templates, there valid.
As mentioned before, the syntax is extremely permissive. 10Jimmy0 is a valid string, int and float
because the parsing functions for ints and floats skips any character that is not a number so they will read 10Jimmy0 as 100
It treats everything as a list. So for examply it treats health in the previous example as a list with one item.
If you try to read a value that isn't there, it will print a warning, and return an empty array.
You could also use the GetTypeOrDef functions that looks for a value that matches a certain name, and if it can't find it, it will print a warning and return a default value.
/s declares the text to be a string literal. String literals can span multiple lines, and a string literal can not be stored as a list. This means that you can use commas in them.