The task is to read a configuration file in standard configuration file format,
and set variables accordingly.

For this task, we have a configuration file as follows:

# This is a configuration file in standard configuration file format
#
# Lines beginning with a hash or a semicolon are ignored by the application
# program. Blank lines are also ignored by the application program.

# This is the fullname parameter
FULLNAME Foo Barber

# This is a favourite fruit
FAVOURITEFRUIT banana

# This is a boolean that should be set
NEEDSPEELING

# This boolean is commented out
; SEEDSREMOVED

# Configuration option names are not case sensitive, but configuration parameter
# data is case sensitive and may be preserved by the application program.

# An optional equals sign can be used to separate configuration parameter data
# from the option name. This is dropped by the parser. 

# A configuration option may take multiple parameters separated by commas.
# Leading and trailing whitespace around parameter names and parameter data fields
# are ignored by the application program.

OTHERFAMILY Rhu Barber, Harry Barber



For the task we need to set four variables according to the configuration entries as follows:

fullname = Foo Barber
favouritefruit = banana
needspeeling = true
seedsremoved = false


We also have an option that contains multiple parameters. These may be stored in an array.

 otherfamily(1) = Rhu Barber
 otherfamily(2) = Harry Barber


Related tasks
 Update a configuration file


 
// read the configuration file and get a list of just the interesting lines
set lines to each line of file "config.txt" where char 1 of each isn't in ("#", ";", "")
 
set the listFormat's quotes to quote -- be sure to quote values for evaluating
 
repeat with each configLine in lines
	put word 1 of configLine into varName
	insert varName into variableNames -- make a list of all config variables
 
	put (words 2 to last of configLine) split by comma into values
	put trim of each item of values into values -- trim any leading/trailing spaces
	if values is empty then set values to true -- no value means boolean true
	do "set" && varName && "to" && values -- assign value to variable
end repeat
 
repeat with each name in variableNames
	put "Variable" && name && "is" && value(name)
end repeat
 