I want to put a bunch of configuration into a file, and was wondering if boost::program_options could be used to load it. Looking at the documentation for program_options, it's easy to load configuration off of the command line, and then other values for same and additional configuration parameters from a config file. But, what I want to do is have a data file. I want to have a file that looks like, say: [thing1] name=dogooder method=http [thing2] name=bob method=http [thing4] name=mary method=gopher And, I'm wondering if I can use program_options::parse_config_file to load this, or if there's no way for parse_config_file to load things that aren't specifically entered in to the options_decription as expected options... Can it load unexpected options? Is there an iterator that would let me just look at everything that was loaded? Thanks... - Chris