parse_ini_file wierdness

[drawmack]

I'm writting an app that uses an ini file (hey there's a first time for everything). The problem that I'm having is this.

my ini file looks like this

[files]
    image=graph.jpg
[counts]
    letters=1075141
    digrams=1075141
    trigrams=1075141
[letters]
    A=85872,7.99
    B=23866,2.22
    C=38215,3.55
    D=35055,3.26
    E=125765,11.7
    F=20498,1.91
    G=21521,2
    H=35281,3.28
    I=80021,7.44
    J=2726,0.25
    K=11390,1.06
    L=42467,3.95
    M=31573,2.94
    N=79137,7.36
    O=82872,7.71
    P=27854,2.59
    Q=2083,0.19
    R=77707,7.23
    S=79421,7.39
    T=83189,7.74
    U=28612,2.66
    V=13427,1.25
    W=19092,1.78
    X=2139,0.2
    Y=23597,2.19
    Z=1761,0.16
[digrams]
   ER=19838,1.85
   IN=18344,1.71
   ES=17908,1.67
   ON=16572,1.54
   TH=16324,1.52
   RE=15263,1.42
   TI=14750,1.37
   OR=14593,1.36
   HE=14525,1.35
   AN=14062,1.31
[trigrams]
   THE=11673,1.09
   ION=6788,0.63
   ING=5464,0.51
   AND=5389,0.5
   TIO=5168,0.48
   BSP=5015,0.47
   NBS=4995,0.46
   ERS=4072,0.38
   ENT=4010,0.37
   ATI=3780,0.35

but when I use

parse_ini_file($file_name,TRUE)

and then print the array with print_r I get this

Array
(
    [files] => Array
        (
            [image] => graph.jpg
        )

[counts] => Array
    (
        [letters] => 1075141
        [digrams] => 1075141
        [trigrams] => 1075141
    )

[letters] => Array
    (
        [A] => 85872,7.99
        [B] => 23866,2.22
        [C] => 38215,3.55
        [D] => 35055,3.26
        [E] => 125765,11.7
        [F] => 20498,1.91
        [G] => 21521,2
        [H] => 35281,3.28
        [I] => 80021,7.44
        [J] => 2726,0.25
        [K] => 11390,1.06
        [L] => 42467,3.95
        [M] => 31573,2.94
        [N] => 79137,7.36
        [O] => 82872,7.71
        [P] => 27854,2.59
        [Q] => 2083,0.19
        [R] => 77707,7.23
        [S] => 79421,7.39
        [T] => 83189,7.74
        [U] => 28612,2.66
        [V] => 13427,1.25
        [W] => 19092,1.78
        [X] => 2139,0.2
        [Y] => 23597,2.19
        [Z] => 1761,0.16
    )

[digrams] => Array
    (
        [ER] => 19838,1.85
        [IN] => 18344,1.71
        [ES] => 17908,1.67
    )

)

so my entire ini file is not parsed. Does anyone know why this is happening?

[drawmack]

well my best guess was that on is a reserved word, so I did up a work around for it:

<?php function my_parse_ini($file) {
    if(!file_exists($file) && !is_readable($file)) 
        die('Could Not Open Ini File');

$contents = file($file);

$retval = array();

$section = '';
foreach($contents as $line) {
    $line = trim($line);
    $line = eregi_replace(';[.]*','',$line);
    if(strlen($line) > 0) {
        echo $line . " - ";
        if(eregi('^\[[a-z]+\]$',$line)) {
            echo 'section';
            $section = substr($line,1,(strlen($line)-2));
            $retval[$section] = array();
        } elseif($section != '') {
            echo 'section element';
            list($key,$val) = explode('=',$line);
            $retval[$section][$key] = $val;
        } elseif(eregi('=',$line)) {
            echo 'main element';
            list($key,$val) = explode('=',$line);
            $retval[$key] = $val;
        } //end if
        echo '<br />';
    } //end if
} //end foreach

return $retval;
} //end my_parse_ini
?>

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by drawmack
well my best guess was that on is a reserved word, so I did up a work around for it:

I reckon you'd be right there - ditto for "off". Since parse_ini_file already reserves "true", "false", "yes", and "no", it's a fair guess that "on" and "off" are reserved as well. I've yet to see why this would be a good thing....

[drawmack]

Originally posted by Weedpacket
I reckon you'd be right there - ditto for "off". Since parse_ini_file already reserves "true", "false", "yes", and "no", it's a fair guess that "on" and "off" are reserved as well. I've yet to see why this would be a good thing....

Because it slows down development time so that the disparity between developing in PERL and PHP doesn't get too large?😃

[ZibingsCoder]

Now that is a conspiracy theory if I've ever heard one...