Hi i need an example or a program (so as to read the code) in order to understand how i can read parameters from a file (something like /etc/smb.conf)
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search Google, you will find a lot of tutorials and examples of how to open a file with C prog.

I have tried that but no good results...

I could give you some examples of routine, but has they are "home made", they would probably be not undersandablefor someone who don't know how to use it ...

Serch about "fopen" and "fread".

The basis is that you have to :
open the file using fopen. (with option read/write..., type of file suc binary or text)
read it to memory, using a routine, using fread.
close the file after use.

Once the file is transfered into memory, you need to extract the data interesting yourself.

It's not really difficult... once you have founded how to do.

I don't know how deep you are aware in C programming, but it's like all read/write of datas (pipes, sockets,...)

The best I could suggest you, if you don't find it using Google, is to buy a serious book of system programming. They all talk about this subject. I could give you a very good reference but it's french.

Let's know.

Also man strtok may help to parse config with delimited fields

Thx a lot guys..give me also that reference

a lot to learn ...


http://www.eyrolles.com/Informatique/Livre/9782212116014/livre-programmation-systeme-en-c-sous-linux.php

and learning french together. !

a little bit hard to understand for start, but fully usefull for learning file handling, pipes, and so..

Good luck.

Thx for the link ... but i dont have the money to afford it... If u can help me a little more e.x provide me some sample code if u have some so i can undestrand how i can parse parameters from a file
the file will have the following format
parameter1=value1
parameter2=value2
parameter3=value3
so i need some generic functions for parsing parameters as well the values... If u dont have the time plz suggest me how to start... thx a lot