June 2018 Update

Task/Read-a-configuration-file/Julia/read-a-configuration-file.julia

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+function readconf(file)
+    vars = Dict()
+    for line in eachline(file)
+        line = strip(line)
+        if !isempty(line) && !startswith(line, '#') && !startswith(line, ';')
+            fspace  = searchindex(line, " ")
+            if fspace == 0
+                vars[Symbol(lowercase(line))] = true
+            else
+                vname, line = Symbol(lowercase(line[1:fspace-1])), line[fspace+1:end]
+                value = ',' ∈ line ? strip.(split(line, ',')) : line
+                vars[vname] = value
+            end
+        end
+    end
+    for (vname, value) in vars
+        eval(:($vname = $value))
+    end
+    return vars
+end
+
+readconf("test.conf")
+
+@show fullname favouritefruit needspeeling otherfamily