I'm looking for a free C library for reading config files, in some
reasonably flexible format.  That is, I'm writing a program in C,
under HP-UX, that needs a config file, and I don't want to have to
write my own routines for reading the config file.  I was going to
just use the termcap library, but termcap style files aren't real
readable.  Does anyone know of anything that might be better?

My news feed is pretty flaky, so I'd really appreciate if you could
email responses.  Thanks in advance!

Adrian

INI files look something like
-------------

[section]
variable1 = value
..
..
..

[section2]

et al.

It would be nice to have this sort of thing as a standard feature
of Unix.

-Greg

: I have heard of a MS Windows style INI file config file library for
: Unix.  It is free, but I can't remember where I last saw it.

If it was IniConf, it's in Perl, at

        http://habanero.ucs.indiana.edu/Perl/modules/

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] I have heard of a MS Windows style INI file config file library
] for Unix.  It is free, but I can't remember where I last saw it.

There is C source code as part of the "SAMBA" package.

There is independently created C source code as part of the
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   Another idea -- X resources?

What about getting one of these little schemes that can be
compiled as library (SIOD?) and making config file a primitive
scheme program like

(set! a 'foo)
(set! b 'bar)
(define v #(1 2 3 4 5 6))

just like .emacs?

Is there a chance that any other config reading library will be
smaller then SIOD?

 Adrian> I'm looking for a free C library for reading config files, in some
 Adrian> reasonably flexible format.

Isn't this the sort of thing libguile was written to do?
(http://nis-www.lanl.gov/~rosalia/mydocs/guile-user_toc.html)

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kompliziert = {
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I think it should be enough for config-files. If you use lisp, the
config files could be much more complex. But this is also a big problem,
because then you mix up data and methods. And by this it is nearly
impossible to create a gui-interface for the majority of users who are
normally abel to change some parameters but who are not abel to change
the methods.

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