Configurable configuration files

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Any nontrivial piece of software would require some kind of configuration, usually by loading a configuration file in program starting up. But what is a configuration file exactly? A configuration file contains information that is part of the initial state of the program. There are two sides of a configuration file: data that is contained in the file, and how the data gets mapped into program…

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