While I am aware there are libraries for config file parsing I have tried to write my own implementation. The problem is that I can find the config option but comparing the string before the delimeter failes when I try to compare it with the thing I am searching for. I need to comare it with the thing I am searching for becasue my program allows things like Test2 and Test3 because it cannot check if there are characters before or after the word Test. The compare allways failes and I cannot figure out why. Here is my code:
Main.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void Parser(char *CONFIG_FILE, int *P_VALUE, char *STRING_TO_LOOK_FOR);
int main(){
int VALUE;
Parser("config.txt", &VALUE, "Test");
printf("%d \n", VALUE);
}
Parser.c:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
void Parser(char *CONFIG_FILE, int *P_VALUE, char *STRING_TO_LOOK_FOR){
FILE *FP=fopen(CONFIG_FILE,"a+");
char TMP[256]={0x0};
int i = 1;
while(FP!=NULL && fgets(TMP, sizeof(TMP), FP)!=NULL){ //Loop through every line
i=i+1; //Increment the line number
if (strstr(TMP, STRING_TO_LOOK_FOR)){ //Is the term im looking for in this line
char *NAME_OF_CONFIG_STR = strtok(TMP, "= "); //look for delimiter
char *STRVALUE = strtok(NULL, "= "); //Get everything past the delimiter
char *P_PTR;
char *pos;
if ((pos=strchr(NAME_OF_CONFIG_STR, '\n')) != NULL){ //attempt remove \n doesn't work
*pos = '\0';
}
if(strcmp(STRING_TO_LOOK_FOR, NAME_OF_CONFIG_STR) == 0){ //try to check the two are the same
*P_VALUE = strtol(STRVALUE, &P_PTR, 10); //Returns an integer to main of the value
}
}
}
if(FP != NULL){
fclose(FP);
}
}
config.txt:
Test= 1234
Test2= 5678
Test3= 9012
Thanks to BLUEPIXY and the demo they created this problem has been solved. The issue was in the gcc comiler options I had forgotten -std=99 somehow this caused the program to behave correctly.