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as i mentioned in my last post i don't know much about file streams... my question is, how can i have my program read from a line in a specified file, say that line would be:
and then the program assigns it's own variable called "version" to that number 1.0 in that line of yes, THAT file? ;)Code:;version = 1.0
note: assume the file is just called settings.cfg
Something like
- Open File
- Read Line
- If line doesn't start ";version" Goto Read Line
Now we have the line
>;version = 1.0
Find the first = sign, assign everything after it to a variable as you see fit.
et voila!
ok, but the thing is i don't know how to do that ;)
The thread below has some code I wrote to find occurences of a string in a file. It prints out the location in the file of the start of the string. Using fseek, you could jump to that point in a file and write to it. If your cfg file is not that large and never will be, you may just want to read the whole file into a set of variables line by line, and output a new one once you've manipulated the variable, delete the old one, then rename your new file in place of the old file (I'm not suggesting that is the best way, and certainly not the safest if this is a a critical bit of software; but it's what just sprang to mind, and it would be easy).
Be aware of Shadows input re: eof, which has not been implemented in the code I posted in the thread below.
http://www.cprogramming.com/cboard/s...threadid=18036
I hope it at least gives you some directions to look. Have a crack and post some code, people will pitch in :)