Win32 vs standard library functions

[jaepi]

Do you have any idea what functions to use in standard library to replace these Win32 functions (GetPrivateProfileInt and GetPrivateProfileString)?

Thanks! :)

[vishesh]

These are Windows specific functionis related to INI files which are Windows Configuration files, so there couldn't be any standard function.

[Ancient Dragon]

you can write your own functions to replace them. ini configuration files are nothing more than simple text files that are in the format

[tag name]
<field> = <value>

So the program you write just searches for the tag name then the field and value.

[jaepi]

I actually found an open source that corresponds to the functions that I mentioned.

here's the link: http://www.matteolucarelli.net/libreria/GetPrivateProfile/GetPrivateProfile.c.htm

Now my problem is, I need to insert wchar_t* instead of the char* datatypes for the parameters. This version of the function is using standard lib functions which only accepts the datatype char*. Any suggestion on how to or what to do?

[Ancient Dragon]

since you have the source code you can change it however you want. But ini files themselves are not usually UNICODE so you might have to add a little code to convert from wchar_t* to char*, assuming that is even possible, which it might not be with some languages.

[jaepi]

Uhmmm. What if I will use wcstombs() function to convert wide char to multibyte? Could it be possible?

[Ancient Dragon]

Yes, I use that function frequently and it works well for me.

[jaepi]

Thank you sirs! :)