[AD] Allegro, config file routines addition

["Charles Bilyue'" <bujin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings to you... was writing some config file loading routines, and I wanted a feature not too dissimilar to classic Windows boolean INI file entries.

 

Below is the solution I used, get_config_boolean(). Allegro has been a great help to me, and I hope someone finds some use out of this.

 

Returns:

 0 if config entry is (case-insensitive strings) FALSE, OFF, or NO;

 1 if TRUE, ON, or YES; and

 if neither, it tries to convert it to a number using atoi() (which would return 0 if it was not a number at all) and return that as the value.

 

#include <allegro.h>

#include <string.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

 

int get_config_boolean(char *section, char *name, char *def)
{
 char *tmp;
 int value;

 

 tmp = get_config_string(section, name, def);

 

 if (!stricmp(tmp, "false")) value = 0;
 else if (!stricmp(tmp, "true")) value = 1;
 else if (!stricmp(tmp, "off")) value = 0;
 else if (!stricmp(tmp, "on")) value = 1;
 else if (!stricmp(tmp, "no")) value = 0;
 else if (!stricmp(tmp, "yes")) value = 1;
 else value = atoi(tmp);

 

 return value;
}

-Charles Bilyue'