Load properties from properties file into Hash
Loads properties from a file with lines formatted as 'key=value' into a Hash. Comments (lines starting with #) are skipped, as are lines starting with =. Empty property values (lines ending with =) and property values containing = are included in the Hash.
1 2 def load_properties(properties_filename) 3 properties = {} 4 File.open(properties_filename, 'r') do |properties_file| 5 properties_file.read.each_line do |line| 6 line.strip! 7 if (line[0] != ?# and line[0] != ?=) 8 i = line.index('=') 9 if (i) 10 properties[line[0..i - 1].strip] = line[i + 1..-1].strip 11 else 12 properties[line] = '' 13 end 14 end 15 end 16 end 17 properties 18 end
