<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title> ht://Dig: Configuration file format -- Attribute Types </title> </head> <body bgcolor="#eef7ff"> <h1> Configuration file format -- Attribute Types </h1> <p> ht://Dig Copyright © 1995-2001 <a href="THANKS.html">The ht://Dig Group</a><br> Please see the file <a href="COPYING">COPYING</a> for license information. </p> <hr size="4" noshade> <p> The meaning of the attribute value depends on the attribute itself. In general, the values can be of several types: </p> <dl> <dt> <strong>String</strong> </dt> <dd> Any string of characters except newline. </dd> <dt> <strong>String List</strong> </dt> <dd> A sequence of string separated by whitespace. Individual strings within the list may be quoted using double quotes. The quotes are needed when the individual strings contain whitespace. </dd> <dt> <strong>Pattern List</strong> </dt> <dd> A sequence of patterns separated by whitespace. Normal strings are considered patterns to be matched exactly. Strings surrounded by [ and ] are considered regular expressions (ignoring the outer [] characters). </dd> <dt> <strong>Number</strong> </dt> <dd> A string that represents a number. The attribute determines if the number has to be a pure integer or if it can be a floating point number. </dd> <dt> <strong>Boolean</strong> </dt> <dd> A string that represents a truth value. Acceptable truth values are given below.<br> For <em>true</em>: <ul> <li> yes </li> <li> true </li> <li> 1 </li> </ul> For <em>false</em>: <ul> <li> no </li> <li> false </li> <li> 0 </li> </ul> </dd> </dl> <hr size="4" noshade> Last modified: $Date: 2001/02/15 17:05:33 $ </body> </html>
