brofield/simpleini

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1325 stars · 357 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

SimpleIni is a cross-platform, header-only C++ library for reading and writing INI-style configuration files. It supports ASCII, MBCS, and Unicode encodings, preserves comments and ordering, and works on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Use cases

• read and write INI config files in C++
• parse INI files with Unicode or UTF-8 encoding
• preserve comments when editing configuration files
• header-only config file library for C++ projects
• load INI files with multi-line values
• handle duplicate keys or case-insensitive sections in INI files

When to choose

• you need a simple, dependency-free, header-only INI parser in C++
• you need cross-platform support including Windows, WinCE, Linux, and macOS
• you need Unicode, MBCS, or ICU-based encoding conversion
• you want comments and key ordering preserved when saving config files

When to avoid

• you need a hierarchical config format like JSON, YAML, or TOML
• you need schema validation or type-safe config handling
• you need a runtime-configurable or watched/reloading config system

Facets

library · maturity stable

configuration-management parser serialization developer-tools cross-platform files cpp windows cross-platform ini-files header-only config-files unicode mbcs linux macos

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