[shoibalc]

strip leading/trailing white space and following inline comments (if separated by at least a space or a tab) from value.

[tknopp]

I am no regexp expert so am not 100% sure if this is correct. Randomly ping @StefanKarpinski @tanmaykm @daviddelaat @ViralBShah which might have more experience or objections as they made commits to this package.

I tried it out and it seems to work so I would merge and tag if there are no objections.

[stevengj]

This doesn't seem right. For example, your regex is wrong because [#,;] matches a # or ; or ,.

Also, any solution of this form is going to be brittle because ini files can contain strings. e.g. foo="###" is a perfectly valid line, and the # does not begin a comment.

[tknopp]

Ok thanks for reviewing Steve! Then better not merging unless a proper solution is proposed.

[tknopp]

Cross ref https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/julia-users/O3UF-MbtxbI where the request to use the proposed PR has been made.

[ViralBShah]

Thank you for this, and sorry it sat for so long. Inline comment stripping is now in #38, which modernizes IniFile.jl for 0.6.0. It's opt-in via Inifile(inline_comment_prefixes=(";", "#")), matching Python 3's configparser, and a prefix only starts a comment after whitespace, as proposed here. You're credited as a co-author on the commit that adds it. Closing in favor of #38.