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Re: Config files [message #47407 is a reply to message #47402]

Thu, 09 February 2006 08:53

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"Edd" <eddedmondson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:dsf79i$fam$1@news.ox.ac.uk...
> I'd like to shift my rather clunky code with too many hardcoded
> constants over to using some sort of configuration file, ideally
> something in a sensible ASCII format. I'd want to pass my code the
> filename, and then it could read the file and pair things up in a
> structure, so I might have a file like
>
> input = myinputdata.dat
> output = myoutputwillgohere.dat
> aconstant = 1.0
> anarray = [1,2,3]
>
> and read it with something like
> foo=readconfig('configdata.txt')
> and get a datastructure from it like
> foo.input='myinputdata.dat'
> foo.aconstant=1.0 etc...
>
> Shirley I don't need to reinvent the wheel? Anything functionally
> vaguely similar would be very handy.
>
> --
> Edd

A while ago I tried to make a singleton config object.
Couldn't really do it, but what I ended up doing was making
a system variable of an object (of an array of structures),
and had a initilization routine that checked to see if it already existed.

pro initialize_qscatinfo,verbose=verbose

defsysv,'!qscatinfo',exist=exist

If exist then begin
if keyword_set(verbose) then print,'variable already defined: '
endif else begin
if keyword_set(verbose) then print,'defining variable: '
defsysv,'!qscatinfo',OBJ_NEW('qscat_info')
endelse

end ; procedure

The object was an array of structures, and it had the usual "get" method
that was based on keywords:
return = !qscatinfo->get(/keyword)

Cheers,
bob

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		Re: Config files By: mmiller3 on Thu, 09 February 2006 11:05
		Re: Config files By: news.qwest.net on Thu, 09 February 2006 08:53
		Re: Config files By: savoie on Thu, 09 February 2006 07:31
		Re: Config files By: Edd Edmondson on Thu, 09 February 2006 04:18
		Re: Config files By: Ben Panter on Thu, 09 February 2006 04:15
		Re: Config files By: marc schellens[1] on Thu, 09 February 2006 03:08
		Re: Config files By: Robert Barnett on Thu, 09 February 2006 20:43

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