text: var sys = require('sys');
  
  // TODO:
  // 1. Handle quoted strings, including line breaks, so that this:
  //    foo = "bar
  //      baz"
  //    parses to {foo:"bar\n  baz"}
  // 2. Escape with \, so that this:
  //    foo = bar\
  //      \"baz
  //    parses to {foo:"bar\n  \"baz"}
  
  exports.parse = function(d) {
    var ini = {'-':{}};
  
    var section = '-';
  
    var lines = d.split('\n');
    for (var i=0; i<lines.length; i++) {
      var line = lines[i].trim(),
        rem = line.indexOf(";");
  
      if (rem !== -1) line = line.substr(0, rem);
  
      var re = /^\[([^\]]*)\]$|^([^=]+)(=(.*))?$/i;
  
      var match = line.match(re);
      if (match != null) {
        if (match[1] != undefined) {
          section = match[1].trim();
          ini[section] = {};
        } else {
          var key = match[2].trim(),
            value = (match[3]) ? (match[4] || "").trim() : true;
          ini[section][key] = value;
        }
      }
    }
  
    return ini;
  };
  
  function safe (val) {
    return (val+"").replace(/[\n\r]+/g, " ");
  }
  
  // ForEaches over an object. The only thing faster is to inline this function.
  function objectEach(obj, fn, thisObj) {
    var keys, key, i, length;
    keys = Object.keys(obj);
    length = keys.length;
    for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
      key = keys[i];
      fn.call(thisObj, obj[key], key, obj);
    }
  }
  
  exports.stringify = function (obj) {
    // if the obj has a "-" section, then do that first.
    var ini = [];
    if ("-" in obj) {
      objectEach(obj["-"], function (value, key) {
        ini[ini.length] = safe(key) + " = " + safe(value) + "\n";
      });
    }
    objectEach(obj, function (section, name) {
      if (name === "-") return;
      ini[ini.length] = "[" + safe(name) + "]\n";
      objectEach(section, function (value, key) {
        ini[ini.length] = safe(key) + ((value === true)
          ? "\n"
          : " = "+safe(value)+"\n");
      });
    });
    return ini.join("");
  };
  
  exports.encode = exports.stringify;
  exports.decode = exports.parse;
  