An ini format parser and serializer for node. Sections are treated as nested objects. Items before the first heading are saved on the object directly. ## Usage Consider an ini-file `config.ini` that looks like this: ; this comment is being ignored scope = global [database] user = dbuser password = dbpassword database = use_this_database [paths.default] datadir = /var/lib/data array[] = first value array[] = second value array[] = third value You can read, manipulate and write the ini-file like so: var fs = require('fs') , ini = require('ini') var config = ini.parse(fs.readFileSync('./config.ini', 'utf-8')) config.scope = 'local' config.database.database = 'use_another_database' config.paths.default.tmpdir = '/tmp' delete config.paths.default.datadir config.paths.default.array.push('fourth value') fs.writeFileSync('./config_modified.ini', ini.stringify(config, 'section')) This will result in a file called `config_modified.ini` being written to the filesystem with the following content: [section] scope = local [section.database] user = dbuser password = dbpassword database = use_another_database [section.paths.default] tmpdir = /tmp array[] = first value array[] = second value array[] = third value array[] = fourth value ## API ### decode(inistring) Decode the ini-style formatted `inistring` into a nested object. ### parse(inistring) Alias for `decode(inistring)` ### encode(object, [section]) Encode the object `object` into an ini-style formatted string. If the optional parameter `section` is given, then all top-level properties of the object are put into this section and the `section`-string is prepended to all sub-sections, see the usage example above. ### stringify(object, [section]) Alias for `encode(object, [section])` ### safe(val) Escapes the string `val` such that it is safe to be used as a key or value in an ini-file. Basically escapes quotes. For example ini.safe('"unsafe string"') would result in "\"unsafe string\"" ### unsafe(val) Unescapes the string `val`