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- data/History.txt +39 -0
- data/Intro.txt +3 -0
- data/LICENCE.rdoc +159 -0
- data/README.md +296 -0
- data/bin/optplus +78 -0
- data/bin/optplus-installer +32 -0
- data/lib/optplus.rb +416 -0
- data/lib/optplus/errors.rb +31 -0
- data/lib/optplus/nested.rb +159 -0
- data/lib/optplus/version.rb +13 -0
- data/spec/optplus_spec.rb +41 -0
- data/spec/spec_helper.rb +12 -0
- data/test/conf.d/optplus.rb +1 -0
- data/test/my_nested_parser.rb +130 -0
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== History
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[optplus-0.0.8 13-Sep-2013]
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Release Candidate with nesting etc.
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# OPTPLUS
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**GitHub:** [https://github.com/osburn-sharp/optplus](https://github.com/osburn-sharp/optplus)
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## Installation
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## Getting Started
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