Inix

A lightweight C# ini parser:

• ~250 lines of code.
• Pure C# code, only 1 import to use StringBuilder.
• Built in .NET 6.0
• 11KB in size.

Support

Below defines what is supported by inix.

; global comments
// comments starting with a slash

[HEADER] ; comments on headers.
TESTING=0 ; comments on properties.

; and obviously being able to access each header, its comments. As well as each property and its value/comments.

Motive

I personally needed a highly customizable ini parser for the AssettoTools project, other solutions were bloated in my opinion and the same results can be achieved in a quarter of the code as seen in this repository.

Usage

The usage is demonstrated below, however, there is an examples solution Inix.Examples that contains the same information.

Note: inix.parse takes a file path, not contents. Will most likely add another method for parsing raw data. The [CAMBER_RF] and [MIN] snippets below are referring to the Inix.Examples\\Data\\test.ini file. It is included in the repository so you can try it for yourself aswell.

The InixLoader is a class you only need to instantiate once, it contains all of the code needed to parse the INI file and return an InixFile. The InixFile is an object that houses all of the information regarding an INI file. All information sorrounding how to use the InixFile is listed below in the code snippet.

public void Example1()
{
    //Enables or disables the logging, users choice.
    InixLogger.shouldLog = true;

    //Make new inix instance.
    InixLoader inix = new();

    //Pass the path into inix and parse the INI file.
    InixFile result = inix.parse("Data\\test.ini");

    //If the parsing was successful.
    if (!result.hasErrors)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("The parsing was successful.");

        //Print each header and comment of the dictionary
        result.printDictionary();

        //Enumerating through the properties of a header.
        foreach (KeyValuePair<string, InixProperty> keyVal in result["[CAMBER_RF]"].properties)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"[{keyVal.Key}] -> {keyVal.Value.value} | Comment: {keyVal.Value.comment}");
        }

        //Print individual property out, testing [CAMBER_RF][MIN]
        InixProperty propertyData = result["[CAMBER_RF]"]["MIN"];

        Console.WriteLine($"[MIN] -> {propertyData.value} -> {propertyData.comment}");

        //Reconstruct the ini
        string reconstructed = result.ToString();

        Console.WriteLine(reconstructed);
    }
    else
    {
        Console.WriteLine("There was an error reading the INI file.");
    }
}