// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style

// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

// Package properties provides functions for reading and writing

// ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 encoded .properties files and has

// support for recursive property expansion.

//

// Java properties files are ISO-8859-1 encoded and use Unicode

// literals for characters outside the ISO character set. Unicode

// literals can be used in UTF-8 encoded properties files but

// aren't necessary.

//

// To load a single properties file use MustLoadFile():

//

//

// To load multiple properties files use MustLoadFiles()

// which loads the files in the given order and merges the

// result. Missing properties files can be ignored if the

// 'ignoreMissing' flag is set to true.

//

// Filenames can contain environment variables which are expanded

// before loading.

//

//

// All of the different key/value delimiters ' ', ':' and '=' are

// supported as well as the comment characters '!' and '#' and

// multi-line values.

//

//

//

// Properties stores all comments preceding a key and provides

// GetComments() and SetComments() methods to retrieve and

// update them. The convenience functions GetComment() and

// SetComment() allow access to the last comment. The

// WriteComment() method writes properties files including

// the comments and with the keys in the original order.

// This can be used for sanitizing properties files.

//

// Property expansion is recursive and circular references

// and malformed expressions are not allowed and cause an

// error. Expansion of environment variables is supported.

//

//

//

//

//

//

//

//

// The default property expansion format is ${key} but can be

// changed by setting different pre- and postfix values on the

// Properties object.

//

//

// Properties provides convenience functions for getting typed

// values with default values if the key does not exist or the

// type conversion failed.

//

//

//

// As an alternative properties may be applied with the standard

// library's flag implementation at any time.

//

//

//

// Properties provides several MustXXX() convenience functions

// which will terminate the app if an error occurs. The behavior

// of the failure is configurable and the default is to call

// log.Fatal(err). To have the MustXXX() functions panic instead

// of logging the error set a different ErrorHandler before

// you use the Properties package.

//

//

//

// You can also provide your own ErrorHandler function. The only requirement

// is that the error handler function must exit after handling the error.

//

//

//

// Properties can also be loaded into a struct via the `Decode`

// method, e.g.

//

//

// See `Decode()` method for the full documentation.

//

// The following documents provide a description of the properties

// file format.

//

// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties

//

// http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load%28java.io.Reader%29

package properties