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text format question

i'm sorry, i'm really stupid with these things. i was messing with condition-zero mission files. they use a text format like that

Quote:

"CareerGame"
{
"InitialPoints" "2"
"MatchWins" "3"
"MatchWinBy" "2"
"Characters" "Cooper Floyd Kenny Morris Stanley Vern Quincy Gus Ben Eddie Kent Oscar Phil Leon Pete Roger Maverick Cole Igor Larry Ray Sam Travis Kirk Alex Brent Jake Tex Lou Ace Rooster Eagle Sandman Barney Steel Duke Bear"

// If a value is not present or 0, that cost and higher are assumed to be always available.
"CostAvailability"

...
i was wondering if it's a standard notation, and if there's some 'reader component' as so to make things easier... :)

Re: text format question

You can do quite a bit of cheap string hacks to read something like that.
For example, at some point in time I needed to parse something like "variable/value".
What I did was do strstr with the "/" character and if it was found I set the character to a null terminator.
So now original_string is the variable and slash_character + 1 is the value.

Or atleast thats how I remember it.