content: package mars.util;
  
  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.io.InputStream;
  import java.util.Properties;
  
  /*
   * Copyright (c) 2003-2006, Pete Sanderson and Kenneth Vollmar
   *
   * Developed by Pete Sanderson (psanderson@otterbein.edu) and Kenneth Vollmar
   * (kenvollmar@missouristate.edu)
   *
   * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
   * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
   * in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
   * to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
   * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
   * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
   *
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   *
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   * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
   * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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   *
   * (MIT license, http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
   */
  
  /**
   * Provides means to work with ".properties" files which are used to store
   * various MARS settings.
   *
   * @author Pete Sanderson
   * @version October 2006
   */
  public class PropertiesFile {
  
  	/**
  	 * Produce Properties (a Hashtable) object containing key-value pairs from
  	 * specified properties file. This may be used as an alternative to
  	 * readPropertiesFile() which uses a different implementation.
  	 *
  	 * @param file Properties filename. Do NOT include the file extension as it is
  	 *             assumed to be ".properties" and is added here.
  	 * @return Properties (Hashtable) of key-value pairs read from the file.
  	 */
  
  	public static Properties loadPropertiesFromFile(final String file) {
  		final Properties properties = new Properties();
  		try {
  			final InputStream is = PropertiesFile.class.getResourceAsStream("/" + file + ".properties");
  			properties.load(is);
  		} catch (final IOException ioe) {} // If it doesn't work, properties will be empty
  		catch (final NullPointerException npe) {}
  		return properties;
  	}
  }
  