Re: [GD-General] A portable preferences library

[J C L. <cl...@ka...>]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 12:05:59 -0500 
Brian Hook <ho...@py...> wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 11:42:59 -0500, J C Lawrence wrote:

>> I did a little STL-based thang which reads and writes a map of
>> "<StanzaName>:Token" -> <value> to and from a text file where the
>> value is a multi-value which transparently handles strings, floating
>> point, integers etc in the same type.  Very nice, simple, and easy to
>> use. Load populates the map and everything else is an STL map
>> reference.

> Except it uses STL =3D)

True, except that it would be easy enough to move to any of the
associative array implementations.  There's nothing marrying it to STL.

> I'm using ANSI C since it is, by far, the most plug-and-play language
> for cross-platform work.

I also greatly prefer C, but that was not the political choice at that
time.  Were I do go the C route I'd likely end up with something very
similar but based on *dbm and one of the varray implementations.

-- 
J C Lawrence
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