Ini - Data notation

Ini is an open source data notation created in 1987.

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The INI file format is an informal standard for configuration files for some platforms or software. INI files are simple text files with a basic structure composed of sections, properties, and values. In MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows platforms up through Windows ME, the INI file served as the primary mechanism to configure operating system and installed applications features, such as device drivers, fonts, startup launchers, and things that needed to be initialized in booting Windows. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: dataNotation
There are at least 13 Ini repos on GitHub
Early development of Ini happened in Microsoft
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 1 users using Ini in 1 repos on GitHub
ANTLR grammar for Ini
Monaco package for syntax highlighting Ini
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Ini
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Ini
See also: (8 related languages) XML, Linux, Unix, PHP, Unicode, C, JSON, YAML
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Example from the web:

; last modified 1 April 2001 by John Doe
[owner]
name = John Doe
organization = Acme Widgets Inc.

[database]
; use IP address in case network name resolution is not working
server = 192.0.2.62
port = 143
file = "payroll.dat"

Example from Linguist:

title=Mindstorms
isbn=0465046290
author=Seymour Papert
pubmonth=198001
subject=children computers powerful ideas LOGO education
url=http://www.papert.org/

Example from Wikipedia:

GetPrivateProfileString("owner", "name", ... , "c:\\programs\\oldprogram\\dbsettings.ini");

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓
Line Comments	✓	; A comment	;
Case Sensitivity	✓	[subsections "areCaseSensitive"]
Assignment	✓	[branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master
hasEscapeCharacters	✓	; \" \\ \n \t \b [section "subsection with \"quotes\""]
Comments	✓	# a '#' or ';' character indicates ; a comment
Booleans	X
Semantic Indentation	X