I'm parsing a config file (dhcpd.conf to be precise), and I'm not sure of a good way to parse it. Basically, it can have lines where there is no reliable line separator. Like this:

option foo bar, baz;
option foo
  bar, baz;
subnet 192.68.0.0 netmask 255.255.00 {
    option foo blat, boff;
}
subnet 192.68.0.0 netmask 255.255.00
    { option foo blat,boff; }

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I need to know that the global option 'foo' equals 'bar, baz' and the option 'foo' associated with subnet 168.156.0.0 is 'blat, boff'.

It looks like I can separate my problem into key-value pairs ala option foo bar; and containers ala subnet ... {  ... }.

I figure I'm going to have to slurp the whole file into a scalar and then walk through it with some regex magic, but I don't know the regex kung-fu.

Any suggestions?

Thanks -Pileofrogs

In reply to Parsing Config File with Multi-line Elements by pileofrogs

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