dotenv

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Overview

Package dotenv parses the subset of .env syntax `notenv import` accepts. The dialect is documented and deliberately small — an importer for secrets must never guess:

• blank lines and full-line `#` comments are skipped; an unquoted value may carry a trailing comment when whitespace precedes the `#`
• an optional `export ` prefix is dropped
• unquoted values are trimmed of surrounding whitespace
• single-quoted values are literal, double-quoted values understand the \n, \t, \", \\ escapes; both may span multiple lines
• there is no variable expansion of any kind: a secrets file is not a shell script, and silently expanding `$X` would corrupt real values

Anything else — a line without `=`, an unterminated quote, a stray escape — fails the parse with its line number, so an import is all-or-nothing.

Index

• type Pair
  • func Parse(r io.Reader) ([]Pair, error)

Types

type Pair

type Pair struct {
	Key   string
	Value string
	Line  int
}

Pair is one assignment, in file order. A key assigned twice appears twice; the caller applies last-wins.

func Parse

func Parse(r io.Reader) ([]Pair, error)

Parse reads assignments from r.