Read a configuration file

Read a configuration file is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

The task is to read a configuration file in standard configuration file, and set variables accordingly. For this task, we have a configuration file as follows:

# This is a configuration file in standard configuration file format
#
# Lines that begin with a hash symbol or semicolon are treated as
# comments and will be ignored

# This is the fullname parameter
FULLNAME Foo Barber

# This is a favourite fruit
FAVOURITEFRUIT banana

# This is a boolean that should be set
NEEDSPEELING

# This boolean is commented out
; SEEDSREMOVED

For the task we need to set four variables according to the configuration entries as follows:

• fullname = Foo Barber
• favouritefruit = banana
• needpeeling = true
• seedsremoved = false