From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31787BB9A for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:59:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j959xvA6027250 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:59:57 +0200 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA19585 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:59:56 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j959xrdw005278 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:59:55 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EN6Jt-0005OS-00; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:16:17 +0100 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:16:17 +0100 To: David MENTRE Cc: caml-list Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Looking for a configuration file library Message-ID: <20051005101617.GA12314@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <3d13dcfc05092706091acdb72a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3d13dcfc05092706091acdb72a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 4343A41D.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 4343A419.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 edits:01 in-memory:01 'string:01 notepad:01 ...:98 campaigns:98 campaign:98 wrote:01 structures:01 library:03 translate:04 long:04 sep:05 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 03:09:18PM +0200, David MENTRE wrote: > For easy configuration of my programs, I'm looking for some OCaml code > to read and write a user configuration file. [...] This is probably not directly relevant to you, but we have had a lot of success using comma-separated values (CSV) files for configuration. Our "configuration" requirements consist mainly of long lists of advertising campaigns and targets, so obviously CSV files make a bit of sense here. Our campaign manager edits the CSV files using Excel. The CSV files translate into in-memory 'string list list' structures and are thus simple to iterate over and generate. http://merjis.com/developers/csv Rich. -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Team Notepad - intranets and extranets for business - http://team-notepad.com