Whitespaces in section names

[sengaya]

It would be nice if whitespaces in the section name could be supported as for example used here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html

[profile user1]
region=us-east-1
output=text

I think that either remove the whitespace or replace it with a defined character (e.g. _) could be a solution.

[albfan]

It should work using quotes.

getkeyfromsection.sh <file.ini> "sectionname with spaces" keyname

[sengaya]

Unfortunately no: When I change the section in file.ini to [sec1 with-space] and run

bash -x ./getkeyfromsection.sh file.ini "sec1 with-space" var1

I can see:

[...]
+ eval '
cfg_section_sec1 with-space () {
cfg_unset ${FUNCNAME/#cfg_section_}
var1=( foo )
var2=( hoge )
var3=( fuga )
var4=( pivo )
}
[...]

and it fails with

../bash-ini-parser: eval: line 64: syntax error near unexpected token `('
../bash-ini-parser: eval: line 64: `cfg_section_sec1 with-space () {'

[albfan]

Fixed on d9dfb77

You should be able to read section/subsection with a _:

So for:

file.ini

[profile user1]
region=us-east-1
output=text

You can query values as:

$ ./scripts/getkeyfromsection.sh file.ini profile_user1 region
show parsed file.ini
[profile_user1]
region="us-east-1"
output="text"

region value is "us-east-1"

There're new test on t0003-sections for this subsection

Let me know if that works for you

[sengaya]

Awesome, works as expected! Many thanks!