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[skelesp]

Hi,

I'm new here on the forum, so I will give a brief introduction. I'm a belgian student who likes programming in his spare time. Now I'm working on a school project which is actually almost finished, but I'd like to add an extra 'function'.

The idea is that I have a textfile with following content:

[startpath]=C:\testmap1\
[endpath]=C:\testmap2\test\

Now I would like to change the paths in my program (so without entering an editor and changing the code). The problem is that I can't search my textfile for the string "[endpath]=" and put my cursor after this string .

Does anybody knows the solution for my problem?

BTW, I have already managed to change the startpath by using FSEEK and FGETS, but when I tried to overwrite the path C:\testmap1\ by C:\map3\, the result was: C:\map3\ap1\. So, the last 4 characters of the previous (and longer) path stayed in the file.

Can anyone give me some tips how to easily change text in a file. I can imagine many people have already done this in configuration file or something like that...

Thanks for the help!!

[WingedPanther]

If you read in one line at a time, you should be able to look at the initial characters in each line.

[dargueta]

Or you could (if you're using Windows) use the Windows API functions GetPrivateProfileString and SetPrivateProfileString to automatically read from and write to the file if you change it a little bit, like so:

;INI FILE FORMAT

;this is a comment

;[section]

;key=value


[PATHS]

start=c:\windows\blah

end=c:\x\y\z