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| − | Basic INI files are a | + | Basic INI files are a loosely defined de-facto standard; more info can be found [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file ''here'']. |
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| + | The Crawler INI files have the following properties: | ||
| + | * Section and entry names are case-insensitive | ||
| + | * Comment lines can be added. Prefixing a line with a '#' or a ';' makes it a comment line. In-line comments are not supported: a single line is either a comment line or it is not - comments on lines with data are not supported. For example: | ||
| + | <pre> | ||
| + | entry = test # test | ||
| + | </pre> | ||
| + | means to set ''entry'' to ''"test # test"'' | ||
Revision as of 05:48, 27 December 2013
Configuration File
Crawler's personalities are driven to a great extent by means of configuration files.
There is no hard rule that dictates how these configuration files should be created - they could be text files, INI-files, XML-based files,...
Because .INI files are easy to understand for end-users, most of the pre-made personalities use .INI-based configuration files.
For more popular personalities, GUI-driven configuration tools might be provided, but in many cases, the GUI-development might lag, in which case the next easiest method to (re)configure a Crawler personality is to edit one or more configuration files.
INI file
Basic INI files are a loosely defined de-facto standard; more info can be found here.
The Crawler INI files have the following properties:
- Section and entry names are case-insensitive
- Comment lines can be added. Prefixing a line with a '#' or a ';' makes it a comment line. In-line comments are not supported: a single line is either a comment line or it is not - comments on lines with data are not supported. For example:
entry = test # test
means to set entry to "test # test"
