From 3a8520b348f69a4739fff816889ec31ff38b9446 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: albfan <albertofanjul@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 18:55:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] choose a more standard prefix

closes #1
---
 README.md                    | 4 ++--
 bash-ini-parser              | 8 +++++---
 scripts/example.sh           | 4 ++--
 scripts/getkeyfromsection.sh | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9841032..f04eec8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ Issuing:
 
     $ cfg_parser file.ini
 
-Will declare functions per ini section called cfg.section.<section> which declares variables named as keynames so you can access its values using
+Will declare functions per ini section called cfg&#95;section&#95;&lt;section&gt; which declares variables named as keynames so you can access its values using
 
-    $ cfg.section.<section>
+    $ cfg_section_<section>
     $ echo $key
     value
     $ echo $key2
diff --git a/bash-ini-parser b/bash-ini-parser
index 1f9339d..cf55d5b 100644
--- a/bash-ini-parser
+++ b/bash-ini-parser
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # based on http://theoldschooldevops.com/2008/02/09/bash-ini-parser/
 #
 
+PREFIX="cfg_section_"
+
 function debug {
    return #abort debug
    echo $*
@@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ function cfg_parser {
    debug "whitespace around"
    ini=( ${ini[*]/*([[:space:]])=*([[:space:]])/=} ) # remove whitespace around =
    debug
-   ini=( ${ini[*]/#\\[/\}$'\n'cfg.section.} ) # set section prefix
+   ini=( ${ini[*]/#\\[/\}$'\n'"$PREFIX"} ) # set section prefix
    debug
    ini=( ${ini[*]/%\\]/ \(} )   # convert text2function (1)
    debug
@@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ function cfg_writer {
    fun="$(declare -F)"
    fun="${fun//declare -f/}"
    for f in $fun; do
-      [ "${f#cfg.section}" == "${f}" ] && continue
+      [ "${f#$PREFIX}" == "${f}" ] && continue
       item="$(declare -f ${f})"
       item="${item##*\{}"
       item="${item/\}}"
@@ -74,7 +76,7 @@ function cfg_writer {
          item="${item#*;}"
       done
       eval $f
-      echo "[${f#cfg.section.}]"
+      echo "[${f#$PREFIX}]"
       for var in $vars; do
          eval 'local length=${#'$var'[*]}'
          if [ $length == 1 ]
diff --git a/scripts/example.sh b/scripts/example.sh
index 1bfa6bd..ccb0bd0 100755
--- a/scripts/example.sh
+++ b/scripts/example.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ echo show some results:
 
 echo
 echo enable section \'sec2\'
-cfg.section.sec2
+cfg_section_sec2
 
 echo "var2 value is \"$var2\""
 echo "var5[1] value is \"${var5[1]}"\"
@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ echo "var4 value is \"$var4"\"
 
 echo
 echo enable section \'sec1\'
-cfg.section.sec1
+cfg_section_sec1
 
 echo "var2 value is \"$var2\""
diff --git a/scripts/getkeyfromsection.sh b/scripts/getkeyfromsection.sh
index 0596780..95765d1 100755
--- a/scripts/getkeyfromsection.sh
+++ b/scripts/getkeyfromsection.sh
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ cfg_writer
 echo
 
 # enable section selected
-cfg.section.$TEST_SECTION
+cfg_section_$TEST_SECTION
 
 # show value of section selected
 echo "$TEST_VALUE value is \"${!TEST_VALUE}\""