Unix Programming - Library functions to parse configuration files?

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Library functions to parse configuration files?

Mark H. Wood

2004-07-31, 8:56 pm

}whine on{
Do I really have to reinvent the configuration-parser wheel every time
I write something that needs persistent configuration data? I've been
unable to find a standard or even fairly popular implementation of
this rather common task and can't shake the feeling that I simply
haven't looked in the right spot.

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Måns Rullgård

2004-07-31, 8:56 pm

"Mark H. Wood" <mwood@mhw.ulib.iupui.edu> writes:

> }whine on{
> Do I really have to reinvent the configuration-parser wheel every time
> I write something that needs persistent configuration data? I've been
> unable to find a standard or even fairly popular implementation of
> this rather common task and can't shake the feeling that I simply
> haven't looked in the right spot.

My libtc library includes a configuration file parser/writer. Read
more at http://libtc.sf.net.

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Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

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