Re: C/C++ interface to YAML files

On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 07:40:29PM -0500, Chris Ross wrote:
> 
> On Dec 19, 2007, at 19:36, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > Hi Chris, I'm using Java, jvYaml. Can't help directly. But I am  
> > find it
> > awesome to be able to load YAML format files. It is really nice for
> > writing documents (files) in.
> >
> > On the other end (which in combination provides an awesome  
> > pipeline), I
> > use StringTemplate (www.stringtemplate.org) by Terrence Parr.
> >
> > What is your use case?
> 
>    I'm developing a small suite of applications, and I need to design
> configuration file formats.  Something relatively simple like having
> key-value pairs is a start, but I think I'd like to be able to have
> array's as values for some of the keys, and other such things.
> 
>    At the moment, getcap(3) style databases are the only format I
> support, but as that's a BSDism, and apparently doesn't exist in
> the glibc on the linux systems I've looked at, I wanted to make
> sure to write the code to use others.
> 
>    So, it's just for reading, in the case of my code, and it's going
> to be a pretty simply document in most (if not all) cases.

You may find a full YAML loader, which has proper support for YAML spec, is
significantly more flexibility (complexity) than you need. Here's part
of the Reference:

%YAML 1.1   # Reference card
---
Collection indicators:
    '? ' : Key indicator.
    ': ' : Value indicator.
    '- ' : Nested series entry indicator.
    ', ' : Separate in-line branch entries.
    '[]' : Surround in-line series branch.
    '{}' : Surround in-line keyed branch.

(www.yaml.org from memory)

Your arrays are right there...

zen

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