On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Mythran wrote: > From: "Mike Stilson" <mike@VELGARIAN.SYTES.NET> > > This snippet already exists (if not I can make one) something about > > world.c or something, sorry, don't remember the name of the ftp file. > > In the config file, I am storing all values in key=value pairs. So, how > about strings? Right now, the strings added are one-liners, no need for ~ > characters...but I see that the last bunch of variables are strings that > have carriage returns in them, therefore, I will prob need some suggestions > on this... > I figure that, for the variable MENU and others, hardcoded would be the > variable MENU and I can check for the ~ at the end of the line, then use > fread_string along with sprintf to store the value in a buffer, this would, > in turn, restore the string variable... One thought--possibly a bad one--is to store the entire MENU varible on one line, but use "\n" to indicate carriage returns. You'd have to convert back and forth when displaying and reading/writing the file, but you could ignore multi-line parsing. Of course, you have to parse multi-line data to read the all the data files anyway... --Hawson -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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