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NAME

       Config::IniFiles - A module for reading .ini-style configuration files.

VERSION

       version 3.000003

SYNOPSIS

         use Config::IniFiles;
         my $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => "/path/configfile.ini" );
         print "The value is " . $cfg->val( 'Section', 'Parameter' ) . "."
           if $cfg->val( 'Section', 'Parameter' );

DESCRIPTION

       Config::IniFiles provides a way to have readable configuration files outside your Perl
       script. Configurations can be imported (inherited, stacked,...), sections can be grouped,
       and settings can be accessed from a tied hash.

FILE FORMAT

       INI files consist of a number of sections, each preceded with the section name in square
       brackets, followed by parameter names and their values.

         [a section]
         Parameter=Value

         [section 2]
         AnotherParameter=Some value
         Setting=Something else
         Parameter=Different scope than the one in the first section

       The first non-blank character of the line indicating a section must be a left bracket and
       the last non-blank character of a line indicating a section must be a right bracket. The
       characters making up the section name can be any symbols at all. However section names
       must be unique.

       Parameters are specified in each section as Name=Value.  Any spaces around the equals sign
       will be ignored, and the value extends to the end of the line (including any whitespace at
       the end of the line.  Parameter names are localized to the namespace of the section, but
       must be unique within a section.

       Both the hash mark (#) and the semicolon (;) are comment characters.  by default (this can
       be changed by configuration). Lines that begin with either of these characters will be
       ignored. Any amount of whitespace may precede the comment character.

       Multi-line or multi-valued parameters may also be defined ala UNIX "here document" syntax:

         Parameter=<<EOT
         value/line 1
         value/line 2
         EOT

       You may use any string you want in place of "EOT". Note that whatever follows the "<<" and
       what appears at the end of the text MUST match exactly, including any trailing whitespace.

       Alternately, as a configuration option (default is off), continuation lines can be
       allowed:

         [Section]
         Parameter=this parameter \
           spreads across \
           a few lines

USAGE -- Object Interface

       Get a new Config::IniFiles object with the new method:

         $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => "/path/config_file.ini" );
         $cfg = new Config::IniFiles -file => "/path/config_file.ini";

       Optional named parameters may be specified after the configuration file name. See the new
       in the METHODS section, below.

       Values from the config file are fetched with the val method:

         $value = $cfg->val('Section', 'Parameter');

       If you want a multi-line/value field returned as an array, just specify an array as the
       receiver:

         @values = $cfg->val('Section', 'Parameter');

METHODS

   new ( [-option=>value ...] )
       Returns a new configuration object (or "undef" if the configuration file has an error, in
       which case check the global @Config::IniFiles::errors array for reasons why). One
       Config::IniFiles object is required per configuration file. The following named parameters
       are available:

       -file  filename
                 Specifies a file to load the parameters from. This 'file' may actually be any of
                 the following things:

                   1) the pathname of a file

                     $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => "/path/to/config_file.ini" );

                   2) a simple filehandle

                     $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => STDIN );

                   3) a filehandle glob

                     open( CONFIG, "/path/to/config_file.ini" );
                     $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => *CONFIG );

                   4) a reference to a glob

                     open( CONFIG, "/path/to/config_file.ini" );
                     $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => \*CONFIG );

                   5) an IO::File object

                     $io = IO::File->new( "/path/to/config_file.ini" );
                     $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => $io );

                   or

                     open my $fh, '<', "/path/to/config_file.ini" or die $!;
                     $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => $fh );

                   6) A reference to a scalar (requires newer versions of IO::Scalar)

                     $ini_file_contents = <<EOT
                     [section name]
                     Parameter=A value
                     Setting=Another value
                     EOT

                     $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => \$ini_file_contents );

                 If this option is not specified, (i.e. you are creating a config file from
                 scratch) you must specify a target file using SetFileName in order to save the
                 parameters.

       -default section
                 Specifies a section to be used for default values. For example, in the following
                 configuration file, if you look up the "permissions" parameter in the "joe"
                 section, there is none.

                    [all]
                    permissions=Nothing

                    [jane]
                    name=Jane
                    permissions=Open files

                    [joe]
                    name=Joseph

                 If you create your Config::IniFiles object with a default section of "all" like
                 this:

                    $cfg = Config::IniFiles->new( -file => "file.ini", -default => "all" );

                 Then requesting a value for a "permissions" in the [joe] section will check for
                 a value from [all] before returning undef.

                    $permissions = $cfg->val( "joe", "permissions");   // returns "Nothing"

       -fallback section
                 Specifies a section to be used for parameters outside a section. Default is
                 none.  Without -fallback specified (which is the default), reading a
                 configuration file which has a parameter outside a section will fail. With this
                 set to, say, "GENERAL", this configuration:

                    wrong=wronger

                    [joe]
                    name=Joseph

                 will be assumed as:

                    [GENERAL]
                    wrong=wronger

                    [joe]
                    name=Joseph

                 Note that Config::IniFiles will also omit the fallback section header when
                 outputting such configuration.

       -nocase 0|1
                 Set -nocase => 1 to handle the config file in a case-insensitive manner (case in
                 values is preserved, however).  By default, config files are case-sensitive
                 (i.e., a section named 'Test' is not the same as a section named 'test').  Note
                 that there is an added overhead for turning off case sensitivity.

       -import object
                 This allows you to import or inherit existing setting from another
                 Config::IniFiles object. When importing settings from another object, sections
                 with the same name will be merged and parameters that are defined in both the
                 imported object and the -file will take the value of given in the -file.

                 If a -default section is also given on this call, and it does not coincide with
                 the default of the imported object, the new default section will be used
                 instead. If no -default section is given, then the default of the imported
                 object will be used.

       -allowcontinue 0|1
                 Set -allowcontinue => 1 to enable continuation lines in the config file.  i.e.
                 if a line ends with a backslash "\", then the following line is appended to the
                 parameter value, dropping the backslash and the newline character(s).

                 Default behavior is to keep a trailing backslash "\" as a parameter value. Note
                 that continuation cannot be mixed with the "here" value syntax.

       -allowempty 0|1
                 If set to 1, then empty files are allowed at ReadConfig time. If set to 0 (the
                 default), an empty configuration file is considered an error.

       -negativedeltas 0|1
                 If set to 1 (the default if importing this object from another one), parses and
                 honors lines of the following form in the configuration file:

                   ; [somesection] is deleted

                 or

                   [inthissection]
                   ; thisparameter is deleted

                 If set to 0 (the default if not importing), these comments are treated like
                 ordinary ones.

                 The WriteConfig1)> form will output such comments to indicate deleted sections
                 or parameters. This way, reloading a delta file using the same imported object
                 produces the same results in memory again. See " DELTA FEATURES" in IMPORT  for
                 more details.

       -commentchar 'char'
                 The default comment character is "#". You may change this by specifying this
                 option to another character. This can be any character except alphanumeric
                 characters, square brackets or the "equal" sign.

       -allowedcommentchars 'chars'
                 Allowed default comment characters are "#" and ";". By specifying this option
                 you may change the range of characters that are used to denote a comment line to
                 include any set of characters

                 Note: that the character specified by -commentchar (see above) is always part of
                 the allowed comment characters.

                 Note 2: The given string is evaluated as a regular expression character class,
                 so '\' must be escaped if you wish to use it.

       -reloadwarn 0|1
                 Set -reloadwarn => 1 to enable a warning message (output to STDERR) whenever the
                 config file is reloaded.  The reload message is of the form:

                   PID <PID> reloading config file <file> at YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM:SS

                 Default behavior is to not warn (i.e. -reloadwarn => 0).

                 This is generally only useful when using Config::IniFiles in a server or daemon
                 application. The application is still responsible for determining when the
                 object is to be reloaded.

       -nomultiline 0|1
                 Set -nomultiline => 1 to output multi-valued parameter as:

                  param=value1
                  param=value2

                 instead of the default:

                  param=<<EOT
                  value1
                  value2
                  EOT

                 As the latter might not be compatible with all applications.

       -handle_trailing_comment 0|1
                 Set -handle_trailing_comment => 1 to enable support of parameter trailing
                 comments.

                 For example, if we have a parameter line like this:

                  param1=value1;comment1

                 by default, handle_trailing_comment will be set to 0, and we will get
                 value1;comment1 as the value of param1. If we have -handle_trailing_comment set
                 to 1, then we will get value1 as the value for param1, and comment1 as the
                 trailing comment of param1.

                 Set and get methods for trailing comments are provided as
                 "SetParameterTrailingComment" and "GetParameterTrailingComment".

       -php_compat 0|1
                 Set -php_compat => 1 to enable support for PHP like configfiles.

                 The differences between parse_ini_file and Config::IniFiles are:

                  # parse_ini_file
                  [group]
                  val1="value"
                  val2[]=1
                  val2[]=2

                  vs

                  # Config::IniFiles
                  [group]
                  val1=value
                  val2=1
                  val2=2

                 This option only affect parsing, not writing new configfiles.

                 Some features from parse_ini_file are not compatible:

                  [group]
                  val1="val"'ue'
                  val1[key]=1

   val ($section, $parameter [, $default] )
       Returns the value of the specified parameter ($parameter) in section $section, returns
       undef (or $default if specified) if no section or no parameter for the given section
       exists.

       If you want a multi-line/value field returned as an array, just specify an array as the
       receiver:

         @values = $cfg->val('Section', 'Parameter');

       A multi-line/value field that is returned in a scalar context will be joined using $/
       (input record separator, default is \n) if defined, otherwise the values will be joined
       using \n.

   exists($section, $parameter)
       True if and only if there exists a section $section, with a parameter $parameter inside,
       not counting default values.

   push ($section, $parameter, $value, [ $value2, ...])
       Pushes new values at the end of existing value(s) of parameter $parameter in section
       $section.  See below for methods to write the new configuration back out to a file.

       You may not set a parameter that didn't exist in the original configuration file.  push
       will return undef if this is attempted. See newval below to do this. Otherwise, it returns
       1.

   setval ($section, $parameter, $value, [ $value2, ... ])
       Sets the value of parameter $parameter in section $section to $value (or to a set of
       values).  See below for methods to write the new configuration back out to a file.

       You may not set a parameter that didn't exist in the original configuration file.  setval
       will return undef if this is attempted. See newval below to do this. Otherwise, it returns
       1.

   newval($section, $parameter, $value [, $value2, ...])
       Assigns a new value, $value (or set of values) to the parameter $parameter in section
       $section in the configuration file.

   delval($section, $parameter)
       Deletes the specified parameter from the configuration file

   ReadConfig
       Forces the configuration file to be re-read. Returns undef if the file can not be opened,
       no filename was defined (with the "-file" option) when the object was constructed, or an
       error occurred while reading.

       If an error occurs while parsing the INI file the @Config::IniFiles::errors array will
       contain messages that might help you figure out where the problem is in the file.

   Sections
       Returns an array containing section names in the configuration file.  If the nocase option
       was turned on when the config object was created, the section names will be returned in
       lowercase.

   SectionExists ( $sect_name )
       Returns 1 if the specified section exists in the INI file, 0 otherwise (undefined if
       section_name is not defined).

   AddSection ( $sect_name )
       Ensures that the named section exists in the INI file. If the section already exists,
       nothing is done. In this case, the "new" section will possibly contain data already.

       If you really need to have a new section with no parameters in it, check that the name
       that you're adding isn't in the list of sections already.

   DeleteSection ( $sect_name )
       Completely removes the entire section from the configuration.

   RenameSection ( $old_section_name, $new_section_name, $include_groupmembers)
       Renames a section if it does not already exist, optionally including groupmembers

   CopySection ( $old_section_name, $new_section_name, $include_groupmembers)
       Copies one section to another optionally including groupmembers

   Parameters ($sect_name)
       Returns an array containing the parameters contained in the specified section.

   Groups
       Returns an array containing the names of available groups.

       Groups are specified in the config file as new sections of the form

         [GroupName MemberName]

       This is useful for building up lists.  Note that parameters within a "member" section are
       referenced normally (i.e., the section name is still "Groupname Membername", including the
       space) - the concept of Groups is to aid people building more complex configuration files.

   SetGroupMember ( $sect )
       Makes sure that the specified section is a member of the appropriate group.

       Only intended for use in newval.

   RemoveGroupMember ( $sect )
       Makes sure that the specified section is no longer a member of the appropriate group. Only
       intended for use in DeleteSection.

   GroupMembers ($group)
       Returns an array containing the members of specified $group. Each element of the array is
       a section name. For example, given the sections

         [Group Element 1]
         ...

         [Group Element 2]
         ...

       GroupMembers would return ("Group Element 1", "Group Element 2").

   SetWriteMode ($mode)
       Sets the mode (permissions) to use when writing the INI file.

       $mode must be a string representation of the octal mode.

   GetWriteMode ($mode)
       Gets the current mode (permissions) to use when writing the INI file.

       $mode is a string representation of the octal mode.

   WriteConfig ($filename [, %options])
       Writes out a new copy of the configuration file.  A temporary file is written out and then
       renamed to the specified filename.  Also see BUGS below.

       If "-delta" is set to a true value in %options, and this object was imported from another
       (see "new"), only the differences between this object and the imported one will be
       recorded. Negative deltas will be encoded into comments, so that a subsequent invocation
       of new() with the same imported object produces the same results (see the -negativedeltas
       option in "new").

       %options is not required.

       Returns true on success, "undef" on failure.

   RewriteConfig
       Same as WriteConfig, but specifies that the original configuration file should be
       rewritten.

   GetFileName
       Returns the filename associated with this INI file.

       If no filename has been specified, returns undef.

   SetFileName ($filename)
       If you created the Config::IniFiles object without initialising from a file, or if you
       just want to change the name of the file to use for ReadConfig/RewriteConfig from now on,
       use this method.

       Returns $filename if that was a valid name, undef otherwise.

   $ini->OutputConfigToFileHandle($fh, $delta)
       Writes OutputConfig to the $fh filehandle. $delta should be set to 1 1 if writing only
       delta. This is a newer and safer version of "OutputConfig()" and one is encouraged to use
       it instead.

   $ini->OutputConfig($delta)
       Writes OutputConfig to STDOUT. Use select() to redirect STDOUT to the output target before
       calling this function. Optional argument should be set to 1 if writing only a delta. Also
       see OutputConfigToFileHandle

   SetSectionComment($section, @comment)
       Sets the comment for section $section to the lines contained in @comment.

       Each comment line will be prepended with the comment character (default is "#") if it
       doesn't already have a comment character (ie: if the line does not start with whitespace
       followed by an allowed comment character, default is "#" and ";").

       To clear a section comment, use DeleteSectionComment ($section)

   GetSectionComment ($section)
       Returns a list of lines, being the comment attached to section $section. In scalar
       context, returns a string containing the lines of the comment separated by newlines.

       The lines are presented as-is, with whatever comment character was originally used on that
       line.

   DeleteSectionComment ($section)
       Removes the comment for the specified section.

   SetParameterComment ($section, $parameter, @comment)
       Sets the comment attached to a particular parameter.

       Any line of @comment that does not have a comment character will be prepended with one.
       See "SetSectionComment($section, @comment)" above

   GetParameterComment ($section, $parameter)
       Gets the comment attached to a parameter. In list context returns all comments - in scalar
       context returns them joined by newlines.

   DeleteParameterComment ($section, $parameter)
       Deletes the comment attached to a parameter.

   GetParameterEOT ($section, $parameter)
       Accessor method for the EOT text (in fact, style) of the specified parameter. If any text
       is used as an EOT mark, this will be returned. If the parameter was not recorded using
       HERE style multiple lines, GetParameterEOT returns undef.

   $cfg->SetParameterEOT ($section, $parameter, $EOT)
       Accessor method for the EOT text for the specified parameter. Sets the HERE style marker
       text to the value $EOT. Once the EOT text is set, that parameter will be saved in HERE
       style.

       To un-set the EOT text, use DeleteParameterEOT ($section, $parameter).

   DeleteParameterEOT ($section, $parameter)
       Removes the EOT marker for the given section and parameter.  When writing a configuration
       file, if no EOT marker is defined then "EOT" is used.

   SetParameterTrailingComment ($section, $parameter, $cmt)
       Set the end trailing comment for the given section and parameter.  If there is a old
       comment for the parameter, it will be overwritten by the new one.

       If there is a new parameter trailing comment to be added, the value should be added first.

   GetParameterTrailingComment ($section, $parameter)
       An accessor method to read the trailing comment after the parameter.  The trailing comment
       will be returned if there is one. A null string will be returned if the parameter exists
       but there is no comment for it.  otherwise, undef will be returned.

   Delete
       Deletes the entire configuration file in memory.

USAGE -- Tied Hash

   tie %ini, 'Config::IniFiles', (-file=>$filename, [-option=>value ...] )
       Using "tie", you can tie a hash to a Config::IniFiles object. This creates a new object
       which you can access through your hash, so you use this instead of the new method. This
       actually creates a hash of hashes to access the values in the INI file. The options you
       provide through "tie" are the same as given for the new method, above.

       Here's an example:

         use Config::IniFiles;

         my %ini;
         tie %ini, 'Config::IniFiles', ( -file => "/path/configfile.ini" );

         print "We have $ini{Section}{Parameter}." if $ini{Section}{Parameter};

       Accessing and using the hash works just like accessing a regular hash and many of the
       object methods are made available through the hash interface.

       For those methods that do not coincide with the hash paradigm, you can use the Perl "tied"
       function to get at the underlying object tied to the hash and call methods on that object.
       For example, to write the hash out to a new ini file, you would do something like this:

         tied( %ini )->WriteConfig( "/newpath/newconfig.ini" ) ||
           die "Could not write settings to new file.";

   $val = $ini{$section}{$parameter}
       Returns the value of $parameter in $section.

       Multiline values accessed through a hash will be returned as a list in list context and a
       concatenated value in scalar context.

   $ini{$section}{$parameter} = $value;
       Sets the value of $parameter in $section to $value.

       To set a multiline or multi-value parameter just assign an array reference to the hash
       entry, like this:

        $ini{$section}{$parameter} = [$value1, $value2, ...];

       If the parameter did not exist in the original file, it will be created. However, Perl
       does not seem to extend autovivification to tied hashes. That means that if you try to say

         $ini{new_section}{new_paramters} = $val;

       and the section 'new_section' does not exist, then Perl won't properly create it. In order
       to work around this you will need to create a hash reference in that section and then
       assign the parameter value. Something like this should do nicely:

         $ini{new_section} = {};
         $ini{new_section}{new_paramters} = $val;

   %hash = %{$ini{$section}}
       Using the tie interface, you can copy whole sections of the ini file into another hash.
       Note that this makes a copy of the entire section. The new hash in no longer tied to the
       ini file, In particular, this means -default and -nocase settings will not apply to %hash.

   $ini{$section} = {}; %{$ini{$section}} = %parameters;
       Through the hash interface, you have the ability to replace the entire section with a new
       set of parameters. This call will fail, however, if the argument passed in NOT a hash
       reference. You must use both lines, as shown above so that Perl recognizes the section as
       a hash reference context before COPYing over the values from your %parameters hash.

   delete $ini{$section}{$parameter}
       When tied to a hash, you can use the Perl "delete" function to completely remove a
       parameter from a section.

   delete $ini{$section}
       The tied interface also allows you to delete an entire section from the ini file using the
       Perl "delete" function.

   %ini = ();
       If you really want to delete all the items in the ini file, this will do it. Of course,
       the changes won't be written to the actual file unless you call RewriteConfig on the
       object tied to the hash.

   Parameter names
       my @keys = keys %{$ini{$section}}
       while (($k, $v) = each %{$ini{$section}}) {...}
       if( exists %{$ini{$section}}, $parameter ) {...}

       When tied to a hash, you use the Perl "keys" and "each" functions to iteratively list the
       parameters ("keys") or parameters and their values ("each") in a given section.

       You can also use the Perl "exists" function to see if a parameter is defined in a given
       section.

       Note that none of these will return parameter names that are part of the default section
       (if set), although accessing an unknown parameter in the specified section will return a
       value from the default section if there is one.

   Section names
       foreach( keys %ini ) {...}
       while (($k, $v) = each %ini) {...}
       if( exists %ini, $section ) {...}

       When tied to a hash, you use the Perl "keys" and "each" functions to iteratively list the
       sections in the ini file.

       You can also use the Perl "exists" function to see if a section is defined in the file.

IMPORT / DELTA FEATURES

       The -import option to "new" allows one to stack one Config::IniFiles object on top of
       another (which might be itself stacked in turn and so on recursively, but this is beyond
       the point). The effect, as briefly explained in "new", is that the fields appearing in the
       composite object will be a superposition of those coming from the ``original'' one and the
       lines coming from the file, the latter taking precedence. For example, let's say that
       $master and "overlay" were created like this:

          my $master  = Config::IniFiles->new(-file => "master.ini");
          my $overlay = Config::IniFiles->new(-file => "overlay.ini",
                   -import => $master);

       If the contents of "master.ini" and "overlay.ini" are respectively

          ; master.ini
          [section1]
          arg0=unchanged from master.ini
          arg1=val1

          [section2]
          arg2=val2

       and

          ; overlay.ini
          [section1]
          arg1=overridden

       Then "$overlay->val("section1", "arg1")" is "overridden", while "$overlay->val("section1",
       "arg0")" is "unchanged from master.ini".

       This feature may be used to ship a ``global defaults'' configuration file for a Perl
       application, that can be overridden piecewise by a much shorter, per-site configuration
       file. Assuming UNIX-style path names, this would be done like this:

          my $defaultconfig = Config::IniFiles->new
              (-file => "/usr/share/myapp/myapp.ini.default");
          my $config = Config::IniFiles->new
              (-file => "/etc/myapp.ini", -import => $defaultconfig);
          # Now use $config and forget about $defaultconfig in the rest of
          # the program

       Starting with version 2.39, Config::IniFiles also provides features to keep the importing
       / per-site configuration file small, by only saving those options that were modified by
       the running program. That is, if one calls

          $overlay->setval("section1", "arg1", "anotherval");
          $overlay->newval("section3", "arg3", "val3");
          $overlay->WriteConfig('overlay.ini', -delta=>1);

       "overlay.ini" would now contain

          ; overlay.ini
          [section1]
          arg1=anotherval

          [section3]
          arg3=val3

       This is called a delta file (see "WriteConfig"). The untouched [section2] and arg0 do not
       appear, and the config file is therefore shorter; while of course, reloading the
       configuration into $master and $overlay, either through "$overlay->ReadConfig()" or
       through the same code as above (e.g. when application restarts), would yield exactly the
       same result had the overlay object been saved in whole to the file system.

       The only problem with this delta technique is one cannot delete the default values in the
       overlay configuration file, only change them. This is solved by a file format extension,
       enabled by the -negativedeltas option to "new": if, say, one would delete parameters like
       this,

          $overlay->DeleteSection("section2");
          $overlay->delval("section1", "arg0");
          $overlay->WriteConfig('overlay.ini', -delta=>1);

       The overlay.ini file would now read:

          ; overlay.ini
          [section1]
          ; arg0 is deleted
          arg1=anotherval

          ; [section2] is deleted

          [section3]
          arg3=val3

       Assuming $overlay was later re-read with "-negativedeltas => 1", the parser would
       interpret the deletion comments to yield the correct result, that is, [section2] and arg0
       would cease to exist in the $overlay object.

DIAGNOSTICS

   @Config::IniFiles::errors
       Contains a list of errors encountered while parsing the configuration file.  If the new
       method returns undef, check the value of this to find out what's wrong.  This value is
       reset each time a config file is read.

BUGS

       •  The output from [Re]WriteConfig/OutputConfig might not be as pretty as it can be.
          Comments are tied to whatever was immediately below them.  And case is not preserved
          for Section and Parameter names if the -nocase option was used.

       •  No locking is done by [Re]WriteConfig.  When writing servers, take care that only the
          parent ever calls this, and consider making your own backup.

Data Structure

       Note that this is only a reference for the package maintainers - one of the upcoming
       revisions to this package will include a total clean up of the data structure.

         $iniconf->{cf} = "config_file_name"
                 ->{startup_settings} = \%orginal_object_parameters
                 ->{imported} = $object WHERE $object->isa("Config::IniFiles")
                 ->{nocase} = 0
                 ->{reloadwarn} = 0
                 ->{sects} = \@sections
                 ->{mysects} = \@sections
                 ->{sCMT}{$sect} = \@comment_lines
                 ->{group}{$group} = \@group_members
                 ->{parms}{$sect} = \@section_parms
                 ->{myparms}{$sect} = \@section_parms
                 ->{EOT}{$sect}{$parm} = "end of text string"
                 ->{pCMT}{$sect}{$parm} = \@comment_lines
                 ->{v}{$sect}{$parm} = $value   OR  \@values
                 ->{e}{$sect} = 1 OR does not exist
                 ->{mye}{$sect} = 1 OR does not exists

AUTHOR and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       The original code was written by Scott Hutton.  Then handled for a time by Rich Bowen
       (thanks!), and was later managed by Jeremy Wadsack (thanks!), and now is managed by Shlomi
       Fish ( <http://www.shlomifish.org/> ) with many contributions from various other people.

       In particular, special thanks go to (in roughly chronological order):

       Bernie Cosell, Alan Young, Alex Satrapa, Mike Blazer, Wilbert van de Pieterman, Steve
       Campbell, Robert Konigsberg, Scott Dellinger, R. Bernstein, Daniel Winkelmann, Pires
       Claudio, Adrian Phillips, Marek Rouchal, Luc St Louis, Adam Fischler, Kay Roepke, Matt
       Wilson, Raviraj Murdeshwar and Slaven Rezic, Florian Pfaff

       Geez, that's a lot of people. And apologies to the folks who were missed.

       If you want someone to bug about this, that would be:

           Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>

       If you want more information, or want to participate, go to:

       <http://sourceforge.net/projects/config-inifiles/>

       Please submit bug reports using the Request Tracker interface at
       <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Config-IniFiles> .

       Development discussion occurs on the mailing list
       config-inifiles-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, which you can subscribe to by going to the
       project web site (link above).

LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2000 by Scott Hutton and the rest of the Config::IniFiles
       contributors.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

AUTHOR

       Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2000 by RBOW and others.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
       <https://github.com/shlomif/perl-Config-IniFiles/issues>

       When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing
       test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SUPPORT

   Perldoc
       You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

         perldoc Config::IniFiles

   Websites
       The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you.
       As always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to
       discover more resources.

       •   MetaCPAN

           A modern, open-source CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.

           <https://metacpan.org/release/Config-IniFiles>

       •   RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker

           The RT ( Request Tracker ) website is the default bug/issue tracking system for CPAN.

           <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Config-IniFiles>

       •   CPANTS

           The CPANTS is a website that analyzes the Kwalitee ( code metrics ) of a distribution.

           <http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/Config-IniFiles>

       •   CPAN Testers

           The CPAN Testers is a network of smoke testers who run automated tests on uploaded
           CPAN distributions.

           <http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/C/Config-IniFiles>

       •   CPAN Testers Matrix

           The CPAN Testers Matrix is a website that provides a visual overview of the test
           results for a distribution on various Perls/platforms.

           <http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Config-IniFiles>

       •   CPAN Testers Dependencies

           The CPAN Testers Dependencies is a website that shows a chart of the test results of
           all dependencies for a distribution.

           <http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Config::IniFiles>

   Bugs / Feature Requests
       Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to "bug-config-inifiles at
       rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at
       <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Config-IniFiles>. You will be
       automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system.

   Source Code
       The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to
       browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me
       a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)

       <https://github.com/shlomif/perl-Config-IniFiles>

         git clone git://github.com/shlomif/perl-Config-IniFiles.git