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| Subject | Re: Has anyone written an INI parser in tango? |
| From | Janderson <ask@me.com> |
| Date | Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:37:16 -0700 |
| Newsgroups | digitalmars.D |
Rayne wrote: > Walter Bright Wrote: > >> Rayne wrote: >>> Just wondering if anyone had because it doesnt seen that the creators >>> of Tango have, and their crappy properties stuff doesnt appeal to me >>> in the least bit. >> Here's a simple one I wrote a while back. A description of the file >> format is here: http://openrj.sourceforge.net/ >> >> // Written in the D programming language >> // placed into Public Domain >> // Written by Walter Bright >> >> module std.openrj; >> >> import std.string; >> >> alias char[][] [char[]] [] openrj_t; >> >> class OpenrjException : Exception >> { >> uint linnum; >> >> this(uint linnum, char[] msg) >> { >> this.linnum = linnum; >> super(std.string.format("OpenrjException line %s: %s", linnum, msg)); >> } >> } >> >> openrj_t parse(char[] db) >> { >> openrj_t rj; >> char[][] lines; >> char[][] [char[]] record; >> >> lines = std.string.splitlines(db); >> >> for (uint linnum = 0; linnum < lines.length; linnum++) >> { >> char[] line = lines[linnum]; >> >> // Splice lines ending with backslash >> while (line.length && line[length - 1] == '\\') >> { >> if (++linnum == lines.length) >> throw new OpenrjException(linnum, "no line after \\ line"); >> line = line[0 .. length - 1] ~ lines[linnum]; >> } >> >> if (line[0 .. 2] == "%%") >> { >> // Comment lines separate records >> if (record) >> rj ~= record; >> record = null; >> line = null; >> continue; >> } >> >> int colon = std.string.find(line, ':'); >> if (colon == -1) >> throw new OpenrjException(linnum, "'key : value' expected"); >> >> char[] key = std.string.strip(line[0 .. colon]); >> char[] value = std.string.strip(line[colon + 1 .. length]); >> >> char[][] fields = record[key]; >> fields ~= value; >> record[key] = fields; >> } >> if (record) >> rj ~= record; >> return rj; >> } > > Thanks for the effort, however as it turns out I was being an idiot, I figured out how the properties work in Tango, its basicly an INI file. At least it works almost the same. I know this has been solved but I'd like to point out that windows offers GetPrivateProfileString. Its not portable and not that efficient (although that would only be a concern if your reading 10000's of entries). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724353(VS.85).aspx -Koel | |
