Simple Po Parser

This is a simple PO file to ruby hash parser, which complies with GNU PO file specification. Tested with the msgcat (GNU gettext-tools) 0.18.3 tool.

Usage

The parser can be used in two ways:

SimplePoParser.parse(file_path) # parses a PO file and returns array of hashes

SimplePoParser.parse_message(message) # parses a single PO message and returns a hash

Hash format

A PO message is parsed into a hash with meaningful keys for each type of line. The values are strings if only one line of such content was parsed, otherwise it's an array of strings. Each string is representing one line of content in the PO file.

{
  :translator_comment => "" || ["", ""...],
  :extracted_comment => "" || ["", ""...],
  :reference => "" || ["", ""...],
  :flag => "" || ["", ""...],
  :previous_msgctxt => "" || ["", ""...],# msgctxt of the message used for the fuzzy translation
  :previous_msgid => "" || ["", ""...], # msgid of the messaged used for the fuzzy translation
  :previous_msgid_plural => "" || ["", ""...],
  :msgctxt => "" || ["", ""...],
  :msgid => "" || ["", ""...],
  :msgid_plural => "" || ["", ""...],
  :msgstr => "" || ["", ""...], # for singular messages
  "msgstr[N]" => "" || ["", ""...] # for plural messages, there N is the plural number starting from 0
}

Simple Po Parser

Usage

Hash format

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