HP CIFS Client A.02.02 Administrator's Guide

Configuration File
General Structure
Chapter 7 101
General Structure
Configuration files are built from the following simple syntactic
structures:
• comments
• strings
• arrays
• dictionaries
The # character starts a comment; any text between a # character and
the end of a line is a comment.
# comment to end of line
Strings, arrays and dictionaries are classified by the generic term
"property".
Strings are sequences of alphanumeric characters, including the
underscore. If a string should consist of other characters like spaces, it
must be quoted in double quotes. Within double quotes, the same escape
sequences as in C strings can be used. There is no separate syntax for
numeric arguments. Numeric arguments are regarded as strings and
converted when used.
Arrays are ordered lists of other properties. An array is delimited by
parentheses and the properties constituting the array may be separated
by commas. The following example is an array consisting of several
string elements:
(1, 2, 3, hello, "how are you")
Dictionaries are unordered lists of named properties. These lists are
delimited by curly braces. Each dictionary entry consists of a left -hand
side (key), which must be a string, an equal sign, and a right -hand side
(value) which may be any property. Entries may be separated by
semicolons. The following is an example of a dictionary consisting of
three entries named property1 to property3 ;where the first one has a
string value, the second an array value, and the third a dictionary value:
{
property1 = "value of property1";
property2 = (value, of, property2);