Parsing a File

[tewari68]

Hi,
I have a config file which has entries like

DYNAMICBASEDIR : /var/maildir
DYNAMICTEMPDIR : {DYNAMICBASEDIR}/tmp/
USERDATAMAILFILEDIR : {DYNAMICBASEDIR}/domains/

This is a common config file which is also being parsed by php script and perl scripts.
I have to parse this file in C++, I can get the key value pairs like

key = DYNAMICTEMPDIR and value = {DYNAMICBASEDIR}/tmp/

Now I have to further parse this key value pair and replace the variable within the curly braces by it's value i.e. /var/maildir,
and create a hash, so that I can reference any of the values by their key.
Appreciate if anybody can help me out with this.

Thanks,
Tewari

 

[jstreich]

find() and substr() are your freinds. I, personally would write a tokenizer (there is a tokenizer function in a shell program I wrote (tar ball on my page (

http://game-master.us/phpx-3.4.0

)that you can use if you like).

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http://game-master.us/phpx-3.4.0/

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