text file routines

hiker_jon

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text file routines

« on: 13 / August / 2008, 12:54:33 »

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Hi,
I would like to read and parse a text file. I notice that some basic routines (like fgets) are missing from the c library. Am I right? Should I write them myself? or has someone already done this.

What I want to do is read lines from a text file then do some simple parsing of the lines.

Thanks,
Jon

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ewavr

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Re: text file routines

« Reply #1 on: 13 / August / 2008, 13:24:39 »

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« Last Edit: 13 / August / 2008, 16:05:11 by ewavr »

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zeno

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Re: text file routines

« Reply #2 on: 13 / August / 2008, 13:42:02 »

I must be missing something - don't the script handling routines do something close to what you want? See script_load in core/script.c (and lib/ubasic/ubasic.c) for example.

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reyalp

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Re: text file routines

« Reply #3 on: 13 / August / 2008, 16:00:00 »

Might be overkill, but you could also use lua for this

Say your text file has a bunch of
name=value
statements
create a lua state
lua_dofile your text file
getglobal on each name you are interested in.
delete you lua state.

there's a bunch of other ways you could do it too, but that's probably the most straightforward.

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