feat: allow exact values

[mja00]

This just disables the inline comment escaping

[Cherry]

This looks great, thanks! Can we update the README with some basic details about this new exactValue option please?

[Cherry]

I also wonder if it might be better to simply only look at ; comments if they have some whitespace before them.

So:

foo=bar;baz;bap ; comment

would parse as bar;baz;bap. That does seem to be a pretty common approach from the quick searching I've done.

[mja00]

I also wonder if it might be better to simply only look at ; comments if they have some whitespace before them.

Would we want to check for spaces all around the character or just after it?

IE: blah; this would trigger a comment
or
blah ; this would trigger a comment

where we'd stop parsing on the space so it'd just come out as blah.

[Cherry]

There seems to be some consensus (as much as you get can get for ini) that any whitespace before a ; then indicates a comment? What do you think?

[mja00]

There seems to be some consensus (as much as you get can get for ini) that any whitespace before a ; then indicates a comment? What do you think?

Yeah makes sense to me. It's easy enough in the parser to check for whitespace around the comment character.