[fpc-pascal]Unit to read/parse configuration file

[Alan Mead]

One more question:  My data analysis program needs to parse a
"command file" to set options, identify variables, determine which
statistics to compute, etc.  

I combed the web looking for a GPL'd or BSD'd unit (or code) that
does this.  I found one simple unit CFG_DEF, a unit for reading INI
files, and numerous (unusable) Turbo Pascal compiled units.  The
config code in ptop is closer to what I'm looking for.  

I'd like a richer set of syntax features than just 'key=value' and if
someone else has already invented this wheel, I'd would rather use
that syntax.  Something like the following:

foo = bar
foo2 = bar1,bar2,bar3
foo3
foo4 -iterations 1 -nostall

Any ideas?  

-Alan Mead

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