Creating .INI Classes in Java

摘要

I recently worked on a project that required reading standard Microsoft-style .ini files in Java. Although the JDK 1.4 does not specifically provide an .ini class, I thought that either the JDK 1.4 java.util.Properties or the Preferences API would do the job. I quickly discovered, however, that neither cleanly translates to the standard .ini file format. By "standard" .ini file format, I mean a format similar to Microsoft's .ini file format, where text entries are organized by sections, each section with corresponding key/value pairs separated by an equals sign (=), and comments that use semicolons (;) and pound signs (#); see Example 1. With this in mind, I created IniFile, a lightweight Java class that reads standard .ini text files into memory, lets you manipulate their contents, and store the various sections with their corresponding key/value pairs in memory.