Bug#400921: Config::IniFiles cannot be used against an empty file

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:57:09 +0200, Vidar.Loken.Johannessen at virtek.no wrote:

[please cc 400921 at bugs.debian.org to keep the discussion public]

> just a comment when using empty ini files. The function SectionExists is 
> not working on empty files. Gets the error message "Can't call method 
> "SectionExists" on an undefined value at test.pl line 7." The version is 
> still 2.38
> 
> the code run is:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use Config::IniFiles;
> my $newCfg = new Config::IniFiles( -file => "empty.ini" );
> if($newCfg->SectionExists("FILE_IN 123")){
>         print "yes\n";
> } else {
>         print "no\n";
> }

Hm, looks like the same as a few days ago:
For empty files SetFileName() is necessary instead of passing the
filename to new(). The following works for me:

~~~~~
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Config::IniFiles;

my $newCfg = new Config::IniFiles();
$newCfg->SetFileName('newempty.ini');
if($newCfg->SectionExists("FILE_IN 123")){
        print "yes\n";
} else {
        print "no\n";
}
~~~~~

Cheers,
gregor

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