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From: stachour@sctc.com (Paul Stachour)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Named-IO / Namelist-IO
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.212302.19230@sctc.com>
Date: 10 Oct 90 21:23:02 GMT
Organization: Secure Computing Technology Corporation
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  I am looking for source (perferably in C)  [but would translate the
algorithm from another language] that will allow me to do "named-io".

This ability is known in PL/I as "data directed IO" and in FOTRAN as
"namelist IO".

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From the top-level viewpoint, one can read a stream with items like:

   QStr := "ABC";  XInt = 7; ZCmplx = (13.1, 17.2 );

and have each value assigned to the variable with the given name.

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From a low-level viewpoint, given a stream and a set-of-tripples of the form 

   [Variable-Name, Variable-Type, Variable-Address], one can

     1)  Match on the name to find the appropriate tripple.
     2)  Convert the value in the input-stream to the appropriate type.
     3)  Stote said value at the given address.

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  Any and all hints for location of said function appreciated.

...Paul

  
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