Re: Parsing project file

[Tim Müller <zen18864 zen co uk>]

On Sunday 24 August 2003 04:26, Russell Shaw wrote:

Hi,

> Is there any library or standard tool for reading in
> a list of name=value pairs and ignoring comments?
> Preferably, a name=value pair could be added or
> modified in the program, then inserted into the
> project file.

The Lexical Scanner (GScanner) that comes with GLib should be able to do that, 
but of course you could also go for an sscanf() type of solution.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Lexical-Scanner.html


We use GScanner in ed2k-gtk-gui to read in the options file, which contains 
lines like

icon_theme = "h2o"
max_logfile_size = 1000
toolbar_show_search_options = false


The function opt_read() in the following code is an example of how to use it - 
maybe you find it useful.

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ed2k-gtk-gui/ed2k_gui/ed2k_gui/options.c?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ed2k-gtk-gui/ed2k_gui/ed2k_gui/options.h?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Cheers
-Tim