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node_modules/ini/README.md

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+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: '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, [options])
+
+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.
+
+The `options` object may contain the following:
+
+* `section` A string which will be the first `section` in the encoded
+  ini data.  Defaults to none.
+* `whitespace` Boolean to specify whether to put whitespace around the
+  `=` character.  By default, whitespace is omitted, to be friendly to
+  some persnickety old parsers that don't tolerate it well.  But some
+  find that it's more human-readable and pretty with the whitespace.
+
+For backwards compatibility reasons, if a `string` options is passed
+in, then it is assumed to be the `section` value.
+
+### stringify(object, [options])
+
+Alias for `encode(object, [options])`
+
+### 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`