xnqscfg is a very simple and minimal configuration language.
- Strings (also multiline strings)
- Arrays (also multidimensional arrays)
- Comments
This was mainly made because I wanted to write a lexer and a parser and because I wanted to write my own library in order to learn everything that comes with this project (not to forget the satisfaction that comes with doing that). Also, I want to add better configuration support to some of my other personal projects such as xnqsbar and maybe turbofetch if I ever decide to revive it. I also don't want to go for anything overkill such as JSON, because it's truly not necessary for my use cases. I just want a dead-simple and minimal configuration library which does its job well.
I put together a PKGBUILD for xnqscfg that you can use right here.
git clone https://github.com/xnqs/xnqscfg.git
cd xnqscfg
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
make
sudo make install
The syntax is outlined in sample.xnqscfg. This file contains pretty much every feature used in xnqscfg.
Usage in C++ is ran over in src/demo.cxx.
Say you want to compile a program that uses xnqscfg, be it demo.cxx. You'll obviously have to link it to the xnqscfg library. Example for GCC:
g++ demo.cxx -o demo -lxnqscfg
You can (probably, I haven't tested this) also dynamically link it at runtime if that's what you want to do.
nothing right now :D
I'm probably never gonna add these because I don't think I'll ever have a need for these, but:
- better API syntax? (
config["variable"]->arr[0]->arr[0]...->stris not very nice) - add variable concatenation?