DragonFly On-Line Manual Pages

firestring_conf_parse(3)                    DragonFly Library Functions Manual

NAME
       firestring_conf_parse - read and parse a configuration file

SYNOPSIS
       #include <firestring.h>
       -lfirestring

       struct firestring_conf_t *firestring_conf_parse(const char *filename)

DESCRIPTION
       firestring_conf_parse() attempts to read a configuration from filename
       and parse the results into a structure that it then returns.

       The support configuration format is fairly flexible:
              # Configuration file example
              # These are comments
              variable_name = value
              variable_name2=value
              variable_name3="quoted value"
              variable_name4="array value 1"
              variable_name4="array value 2"

       include as a variable name is special; it causes firestring to parse
       the file referenced by the value, overriding any previous values
       (although they are still accessible as arrays).

RETURN VALUE
       Returns a pointer to a structure containing the data read from the
       config file, or NULL if the file cannot be opened.

AUTHOR
       Ian Gulliver <ian@penguinhosting.net>

SEE ALSO
       libfirestring(3)

                                  2002-03-31          firestring_conf_parse(3)