Release Notes - dotenv-loader Version 1.0.0
We are excited to announce the first official release of dotenv-loader version 1.0.0, a lightweight and efficient C library for loading and parsing .env files into system environment variables. This release includes core functionality and extensive unit testing to ensure reliable performance in various scenarios.
Features:
- Environment Variable Loading: Load variables from .env files into the system environment.
- Quoted and Unquoted Values: Supports both quoted and unquoted values with escape sequences.
- Inline Comments: Allows comments within .env files using #.
- Whitespace Handling: Automatically trims leading and trailing whitespace.
- UTF-8 Support: Handles UTF-8 encoded characters in environment variables.
- Override Control: Optional control to overwrite existing environment variables.
- Robust Error Handling: Skips invalid lines and malformed variable names.
- Well tested: Comprehensive unit tests are included to validate functionality, including edge cases and large input handling.
- Robust: Handling of both Linux (\n) and Windows-style line endings (\r\n).
We hope this release helps your development process with reliable environment variable management in C projects.