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kv 1.0

Specification

     KV : SP* K SP* ':' SP* V SP*

     M1 : KV (',' KV)* ','? SP*

     M2 : SP* '{' M1 '}' SP*

     M3 : SP*

      M : M2 | M1 | M3

K1 = V1 : [^{}:"\s]+

K2 = V2 : '"' [^"]+ '"'

K3 = V3 : """ .*? """

K4 = V4 : "<<" D \s .*? D

     V5 : M2

      K : K1 | K2 | K3 | K4
      
      V : V1 | V2 | V3 | V4 | V5

Parser

The parser will emit events for KV.

Command line interface

Usage:
  kv INPUT <<EOF
A
B B1
C C1 C2
EOF

Will output concatenated values of INPUT for keys A, B.B1 and C.C1.C2.

  kv -quote < INPUT

Will quote INPUT according to (K1 | K2 | K3 | K4) whichever is best.

Reference implementation

The reference implementation of kv is implemented in ANSI C.

Other implementations

TODO


Source

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