Thread: File IO, .ini readable?

For your second question, the function strtok() comes to mind, but having always made my own string functions (I don't know why, actually...), I wouldn't be able to tell you for sure. If you're feeling ambitious and are feeling very comfortable with C-Style strings, you can just set up a for loop, cycle through the elements in the string, and every time you encounter the ".", in your example, start reading to a different string. You'd end up with an array of string, and thus an array of tokens.

As for your first question. File formats are pretty much completely up to you. It sounds like you're fairly new to programming so I would go with a simple setup. Set up a file of questions (questions.dat or whatever) and just have one question per line, then have an answers file with all the answers on corresponding lines. You use strcmp() to check the answer the user inputs with that read from the answers file. If you google enough you could probably find code libraries to make this easier, but to be honest - you'll learn a lot more if you do it yourself. Probably easier in the long run for a project of this size, actually.

>>So can you point me in the right direction for ini reading?

Reading files using C++ syntax requires either an fstream in ios::in mode or an ifstream. You can use C file syntax, FILE *, in C++ as well.

this is a quick program that I threw together, i hope this helps in some way...

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;
char str[256];

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    
    cout << "Please enter a string (maximum of 256 chars):" << endl;
    cin.getline ( str,256, '\n' );
    ofstream a_file("test.ini");
    a_file << str;
    a_file.close();
    cout << "This is what is contained in the file test.ini:" << endl;
    cout << "" << endl;
    std::ifstream b_file("test.ini");
    std::cout << str;
    cout << "" << endl;
    b_file.close();
  
  system("PAUSE");	
  return 0;
}

There is no function specifically for reading ini formatted files. You can either look for an INI API online or just make your own file format and function, or just our own INI reading function. It sounds like you already know standard file I/O in C/C++. Correct?

The Windows function for reading .ini files is GetPrivateProfileString(). Search the board for samples.