IniLite

Info • Install • Usage • License

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Info

A header-only C library for serializing and de-serializing .ini files.

If you think this library could be of use to you, I'd recommend that you first and foremost study the source code on your own.

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Install

Simply clone or copy-paste inilite.h into your codebase and include it.

#define INILITE_IMPLEMENTATION
#include "inilite.h"

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Usage

De-serialization

Regarding ownership: the IniSection/Ini structs keep ownership of memory. The get functions only return references that would need to be properly copied if you want to keep using them after Ini_free().

Ini ini_in = {0};
Ini_init(&ini_in, content_of_ini_file);

IniSection *ini_db = Ini_get_section(&ini_in, "database");
printf("name: %s\n", IniSection_get_value(ini_db, "name"));

Ini_free(&ini_in);

Serialization

Serialization is done procedurally. I chose this approach since it makes it trivial to (for example) iterate on an array to save its values to an .ini file through a simple for-loop.

Ini ini_out = {0};
Ini_init(&ini_out, NULL);

Ini_append_section(&ini_out, "gojo");
Ini_append_kv(&ini_out, "name", "Satoru Gojo");
Ini_append_kv(&ini_out, "occupation", "Jujutsu Sorcerer");
Ini_append_kv(&ini_out, "birthday", "December 7, 1989");

Ini_append_section(&ini_out, "itadori");
Ini_append_kv(&ini_out, "name", "Yuji Itadori");
Ini_append_kv(&ini_out, "occupation", "Jujutsu Sorcerer, Student");
Ini_append_kv(&ini_out, "birthday", "March 20, 2003");

char new_content[128 * 100] = {0};
Ini_build(&ini_out, new_content);
Ini_free(&ini_out);

FILE *output = fopen("output.ini", "w");
fprintf(output, "%s", new_content);

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.