I have a quite big INI file (around 100kb and over 2000 lines) which I am trying to parse with PHP: $ini_array = parse_ini_file("config.ini");
But the function throw a warning: PHP Warning: syntax error, unexpected '(' in config.ini on line 1334 in ...
Looking at line 1334 won't show any syntax error. Then I read this answer :
Short answer:
Don't trust the line numbers, look for a syntax error in the lines before the line mentioned in the error.
I am confident that there is no error in the file because its used in production by an other tool wrote in Pascal.
So,
How I could check the file manually for errors ?
And if no syntax error exist in the file, is there a behavior of parse_ini_file() I should be aware of ?
I found in the PHP manual :
Characters ?{}|&~![()^" must not be used anywhere in the key and have a special meaning in the value.
From PHP 5.3.0 we can set a third parameter scanner_mode. So calling parse_ini_file() with INI_SCANNER_RAW as third parameter did the trick - the function do not evaluate values.
By default the function use the INI_SCANNER_NORMAL mode and evaluate values.
You could try a "manual" approch, dichotomy search.
You will find the error.