Hi guys !

A little problem. I have a parser (not mine) for a configuration file (smb.conf if someone knows). this file as from the format: 
[name1]
   key1 = value1
   key2 = value2
   ...
[name2]
   key1 = value1
   key2 = value2
   ...

# and so on

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The problem is when I have something like this: 
[name1]
   key1 = value1
   key2 = value2
   ...
[name2]     
[name3]
   key1 = value1
   key2 = value2
   ...

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as you can see name2 has no values, this thing is ok (default values are taken), but the parser I have doesn't return it, here is it's code: 
sub smbconf_parse {

  my $smbconf = shift;
  my %smbconf;
  my $share = '';

  if (! open(SMB, $smbconf)) {
    warn "Couldn't read smbconf file $smbconf\n";
    warn "$!\n";
    return 0;
  }
  while (<SMB>) {
    s/^\s+//g;
    s/\s+$//g;
    next if (/^$/);
    next if (/^\#/);
    next if (/^\;/);
    if (/^\[(.*)\]/) {
      $share = $1;    ####### 
    } else {
      my ($key, $value) = (/^(.*) ?\= (\S.*)/);
      $key =~ s/\s+$//;
      if ($value =~ /^\"(.*)\"$/) {
    $smbconf{$share}{$key} = $1;
      } elsif ($value =~ /\,/) {
    my @value = split(/\,/, $value);
    $smbconf{$share}{$key} = [ @value ];
      } else {
    $smbconf{$share}{$key} = $value;
      }
    }
  }
  close SMB;
  return \%smbconf;
}

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I can see the problem, no hash entry is opened if it didn't find any key=value pairs, so I tried adding something like 
$smbconf{$share} = '';   # just to open the entry

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right after the line with $share = $1;, but that seemed to mess the whole parsing.

anyone has an idea ?

Hotshot

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