Hello,
I'm going to start working on a program that will save your preferences in a .ini form. I want to follow the INI file standards, but I have no clue how I would parse this in a c++ program.
If someone could help, I would very much appreciate it.Code:(test.ini) [header] variablename=value variablename2=anothervalue
Thanks,
Matt
~guitarist809~
So the first line must contain the filename surrounded in (). Presumably you know the name of the filename you attempted to open, so you can check that it's right -- or you can ignore it if you don't care.
Then I guess you need to read in "[header]".
Then you read something=something else. You can use the three-parameter form of getline, using '=' for the delimiter. You had better know what all the possible things for the left side are; you then do a lot of if-else checks, or perhaps something more fancy if you have a lot of different left-hand sides; whatever the left side is, that tells you how to read the right-hand side.
Repeat until tired or out of data.
Actually, I dont need the (filename) thing, I don't know why I put that there
But as for the getline idea, it sounds like it'll work! Thanks for the idea!
~guitarist809~
There's plenty of free INI file parsers out there, such as this one: http://ndevilla.free.fr/iniparser/
I prefer not to reinvent the wheel unless I know I can make a better wheel.
Does it? I don't think I've seen many (or any?) INI files that do that.Originally Posted by tabstop
I have no idea. I just went from the example quoted.
