Perhaps this may be good enough:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/IniFile.jl/

-viral

On Sunday, July 27, 2014 6:08:37 PM UTC+5:30, Oliver Pewter wrote:
>
> Good afternoon,
> I've built a tool that does various modelling dependent on a handful of 
> parameters that may vary from user to user. I would therefore like to allow 
> users to have a 'config' file that with some basic settings. These inputs 
> are non-rectangular data, so CSV is out, at least if I want the processing 
> to be convenient. To give you an idea, it would be several tuples, each 
> with a series of strings and a series of floats or vectors. Then some 
> general settings (name and float for each). And sometimes I might need to 
> nest those tuples.
>
> I have thought about YAML, JSON, serialised Julia objects in a file or 
> straight up Julia code. While the user is expected to understand Julia 
> code, I thought it might be more user friendly to have something without 
> syntax all around. JSON looks especially alluring since it allows for 
> convenient nesting. Also the existence of GUIs is quite convenient.
>
> So the question is — what do you use or what is the prescribed format for 
> this, if there is one.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Oli
>

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