read_properties: Read BioLockJ properties
In BioLockJ-Dev-Team/BioLockR: R Access to the BioLockJ-API

Description Usage Arguments Value Functions Examples

Read properties from a BioLockJ config file or properties file, or a vector of lines representing BioLockJ properties.

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read_properties(existingLines)

read_props_file(filepath)

`existingLines`	a character vector, usually the result of readLines()
`filepath`	character string, exactly one, giving the path to the file to read.

read_properties: returns a named character vector. Names are property names (left of =), values are property values (right of =).

read_props_file(): is a wrapper for read_properties() that takes a file; returns result of read_properties().

read_properties:
read_props_file:

ex1 = system.file("extdata", "example_with_defaults.properties", package = "BioLockR")
read_props_file(ex1)

ex2 = system.file("extdata", "example_no_defaults.properties", package = "BioLockR")
read_properties( readLines(ex2) )
# identical to:
read_props_file(ex2)

vals = c("name=value", "property.name=its value", "property.other=another value")
read_properties( vals )