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A single-header library that converts INI-formatted string literals to a key-value pair list at compile-time.
## Features
* Direct accesses to values are compile-time evaluated, allowing an INI config to replace a list of macros or `constexpr` globals.
* Values can be accessed as strings, integers, or floating-point numbers.
* Run-time support: can iterate through the key-value list or check for a key's existance, both with optional filtering by section.
Requires C++20. Tested to work on gcc 10.1 and clang trunk. Passes `-Wall -Wextra -pedantic`.
[Try it on Godbolt.](https://godbolt.org/z/WTPzE3)
## Features
* Comments and whitespace removed during compilation
* Handles single-line `key=value` pairs with very basic syntax error reporting
### INI format notes
* Handles single-line `key=value` pairs (extra whitespace is okay)
* Supports sections
* Supports comments (start line with ';' or '#', preceding whitespace is okay)
* Supports comments (start line with ';' or '#')
* Supports wide strings
* INI format is validated at compile-time, with future goal of clearly reporting syntax errors
## How to use
```cpp
#include "ini_config.hpp"
auto config = R"(
// Simply place the _ini suffix at the end of your config string:
constexpr auto config = R"(
someflag = true
[Cat]
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lives = 9
)"_ini;
// Returns count of key-value pairs (KVPs), 3 in this case
config.size();
// Iterate through all KVPs
for (auto kvp : config) {}
// Iterate through all KVPs under [Cat] section
for (auto kvp : config.section("Cat")) {}
// Access specific values
config.get("someflag"); // Returns "true"
config.get("lives"); // Searches all KVPs, returns "9"
config["lives"]; // Same as above
config.get("Cat", "color"); // Only searches [Cat] section, Returns "gray"
config.get("Dog", "color"); // No match, returns ""
auto KVPcount = config.size(); // = 3
for (auto kvp : config) {} // Iterate through all KVPs
// (or use begin()/end())
for (auto kvp : config.section("Cat")) {} // Iterate through all KVPs under [Cat] section
// (or use begin("Cat")/end("Cat"))
config.get("someflag"); // Searches entire config for "someflag", picks first match
// This call gets compile-time evaluated to "true"
config.get("Cat", "lives"); // Searches "Cat" section, compile-time evaluated to "9"
config.get<int>("Cat", "lives"); // Compile-time evaluated to 9
config.get("Dog", "lives"); // Does not exist, compile-time evaluated to ""
config.contains("Dog", "lives"); // Compile-time evaluated to false
config.tryget(argv[2]); // Same interface and behavior as get(),
// use this when run-time evaluation is necessary
config.trycontains("color"); // Run-time evaluated to true
```
See the header file for further documentation.
## How it works (brief)
1. `_ini` prefix constructs an `ini_config` object with the given string.
2. Syntax is validated, and a character array is sized to fit all section names, keys, and values.
3. The array is populated with values.
4. Compiled result is the minimized array, with efficient functions for iteration and access.

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