Searching simple flat files

lsearch;/some/file/to/search

The file contains:

item1 : value for Item 1 item2 : value for item 2

A couple things to note:

• There can be any amount of whitespace between the name and value. However, the string returned will only have a single space.
• Empty lines and lines begining with # are ignored. # can appear anywhere on a line.