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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:09:33 +1100
From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org>
To: Philip Schulz <ph.schulz@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Configuration file parsing
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:45:25AM +0100, Philip Schulz wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>  Let me apologize for asking an offtopic question. If you feel offended,
> please ignore this eMail.
> 
>  I'm currently working on a program which will be used in a closed company
> environment. The programm is written in C. For this program, I need to find
> a
> way of parsing a configuration file. I found a library which can do exactly
> what I need, it's GLib's lexical scanner [1]. However, it's licensed under
> the
> GPL, so I guess it won't work for me.
>  So my question: How can I easily parse a configuration file? Any pointers
> appreciated.

Guess for windows ini files, you could use:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/inifileparser/

Gautam