How to create ini file in linux

[abhay.k.joshi]

Hi ,

In windows we can create ini file using winAPI but i want to know how to create ini file in Linux.I am beginner in Linux.

Thanks in advance,
A....

[Zelmo]

ini files for what, exactly?

[abhay.k.joshi]

ini file for log file ,consider in general.

[Zelmo]

Sorry, I must be thinking of the wrong type of ini file. The ones I've seen in Windows are ASCII text files that specify settings for a particular program, which the program reads as it starts up so that it knows how to behave. (A notable example is win.ini.)

Do you have any links to examples of the kind you're talking about?

[abhay.k.joshi]

Yaa similar to what u thought ,that can be done on Windows using
getprivateprofilestring function ,let me as such anything in Linux??

Thanks
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[likwid]

I think you would just use fscanf to read a configuration file...

[abhay.k.joshi]

Ha its not reading its creating a ini file

[likwid]

Then use open a pointer to a file and append or write what you need to the file? Linux is not Windows.

[Cabhan]

I've never programmed with the Win32 API, but I believe I understand what you're saying (it's similar to Mac OS X). Basically, your ini file holds preferences, and you interact with it through some sort of preference manager function.

Well, since Linux programming is not generally done in a framework, this doesn't work any longer. Your preference file can be whatever you want, wherever you want, in whatever format you want. You decide, and manage it yourself. Some popular formats are a basic key-value pairing, XML, YAML, etc., but you really can make any format you want.

And to do anything with it, you just open it up as you would any file, and have a go.

[drl]

Hi.

There are perl modules that can process INI files. For example:

Config::IniFiles - A module for reading .ini-style configuration files.

INI files consist of a number of sections, each preceded with the sec-
tion name in square brackets. INI files consist of a number of sections, each preceded with the sec-
tion name in square brackets. The first non-blank character of the
line indicating a section must be a left bracket and the last non-blank
character of a line indicating a section must be a right bracket. The
characters making up the section name can be any symbols at all. How-
ever section names must be unique.The first non-blank character of the
line indicating a section must be a left bracket and the last non-blank
character of a line indicating a section must be a right bracket. The
characters making up the section name can be any symbols at all. How-
ever section names must be unique.

-- excerpt form perldoc Config::IniFiles

And possibly someone may drop by with information on similar features in, say, Python ... cheers, drl