Thread: ideas for render a string to a variable

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    ideas for render a string to a variable

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    Huh?
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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    ehem, cough, sorry ahd some problems there with awriting a post thinking I was logged in, but turns out I wasn't, so I lost it.

    Anyhow, keeping with the subject, I'd like to read in some variable values from a setting text file, which goes like so:
    varname = value
    so
    fscanf(filein, "%s = %i", varname, &value);
    would *roughly* be what I'd do ...

    If the order of the variables names is observed, and known to the program the job is not too difficult. But if not - and it would be more robust - the program needs to recognise the varname is the correct. strcmp() would be the way here and then a conditional assigning.

    Is there a more direct way? JUst looking for hints. I apologise for the poor wording.Please understand it's the second time I write this post.

    Thanks in advance. Cheers.

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    So I take it that if it says "a = 0", then the variable a should be assigned 0?
    If so, then I suggest you use a map. There is no standard map in C, however, so you may need to google a bit to find a good one.
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    Still not sure what you mean, need to explain by giving a clearer example.

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    I think what he means is if having a config file like for example
    Code:
    Name = My Name
    Age = 123
    DecimalVar = 3.3
    he wants to parse the file and use the rvalue in his code by looking up the lvalue. If so then any implementation of a linked list should do, and you could do something like
    Code:
    struct Variable
    {
        const char* Name;
        void* Data;
        int VariableType;
        struct Variable* next;
    }
    
    struct Variable* list = NULL;
    ParseConfigFile("filename.txt", &list);
    const char* name = GetStringVar(list, "Name");
    int age = GetIntVar(list, "Age");
    float floatVar = GetFloatVar(list, "DecimalVar");
    SetStringVar(list, "NewStringVar", "Hello World!");
    SaveConfigFile("filename.txt", list);

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