[Question]: Parser multi ini file

[rayee-github]

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How to parser multi ini in a script, when [section] is repeated, the content will overlap, is there any way to clear the last ini?

For example:

a.ini

[section1]
value1=a
value2=b

[section2]
value1=c
value2=d

b.ini

[section1]
value1=1
value2=2

[section3]
value1=3
value2=4

test.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Load in the ini file parser
source ini-file-parser.sh

# Load a.ini
process_ini_file 'a.ini'

# Display a specific value from a specific section
echo $(get_value 'section1' 'value1')

# Load b.ini
process_ini_file 'b.ini'

# Display a specific value from a specific section
echo $(get_value 'section1' 'value1')

The output is not correct:

$ ./test.sh
a
[ WARNING ] key value1 - Defined multiple times within section section1
[ WARNING ] key value2 - Defined multiple times within section section1
a1

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[Lupraxus]

The short answer to this is no; there is no way to clear the previous loaded file.

The script was written mostly with a single file in mind, so you could load it and then do something with the config, or if you had split files, you could load multiple and then do something with the results.

Howeve,r it should be pretty simple to add an unload_config function which just unsets the global arrays effectively removing the previously loaded config.

[Lupraxus]

I have added a 'global_reset' function. This will let you completely wipe all previously loaded ini file data that has been loaded.