Thread: Reading From Text File

Code:

char     *sFile=NULL,//pointer to be alloced mem
         *pFile=NULL,//pointer to current pos in file
         *pString=NULL,//pointer to current pos in new string
          sText[64];//new string

CreateFile()//to open it
hMem=AllocMem(GetFileSize())//alloc for whole file
sFile=(char*)GlobalLock(hMem)//lock the mem
//file I/O is slow and risky on networked machines,
ReadFile(GetFileSize())//read whole file in one go to sFile
CloseFile()//leave open for as short time as poss
pFile=sFile;//set to begining of text file
while(pFile!='\0')
  //extract string to add. I use commas in my text files as can be saved as Excel .csv
  pString=sText;//set other pointer to string to fill in
  while((*pFile != '\n')
      &&(*pFile != '\r')
      &&(*pFile != '\0')
      &&(*pFile != ','))
            *pString++ = *pFile++;
  *pString='\0'; 
  while(*pFile++ != ',');//skip the comma 
  iInt=atoi(pFile);//to get an int ect  
  while(*pFile++ != ',');//skip the comma 
SetDlgItemText(GetWDlgItem(hDlg,ID_CTRL),sText)

//and on
FreeMem()