Variant: State Machine (SM)
Source: cfg2kv.js, package.json
As Regular Expressions are (unfortunately) not everyone's favorite, many people would avoid them and code a parser with bare language features only. This is the next technique. One still needs to cope with the Cons of technique 0 above, so a State Machine is used to support multiple sections, arbitrary nesting, more precisely string parsing and expected output ordering.
RECOMMENDATION: Avoid this approach at all as it is too low-level and leads to too much boilerplate code.
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| very much code | hard to understand |
| no external dependencies | still inflexible in output generation |
| hard to implement error reporting
| hard to track line/column