What about passwords with # or ; in them?

Oh, I see, this is to allow this. Wouldn't quotes used be a safer way to handle this?

EDIT: It turns out you can escape comment chars by using backticks or triple quotes.

I stumbled upon this PR because I hit the same issue. Even when quoted, comment characters are still interpreted as the beginning of comments.

Here's a quick playspace demonstrating that using the same ini package: https://goplay.space/#dAkouM7WJ1T

@patrickeasters Thanks for digging into the quoting. Perhaps we should update the README docs to recommend backtick quoting of passwords.

I would also be fine with simply flipping IgnoreInlineComment: true.

Either of those sound better than the rabbit hole of reading docs of mysqld_exporter's dependencies and cursing the inconsistency of INI parsers. 😄

Updating the README is of course the safest, but I don't imagine a ton of folks using inline comments in these INI files either.

This needs a DCO sign-off. You can use git commit -s --amend to add it.