PxConfigOpen

Arguments

Returns

-1 on success, 0 on error.

Description

This function opens the cfgfile according to the mode specified. If the PXCONFIG_CREATE flag is set for the mode, the PXCONFIG_WRITE flag must be set as well.

Example

This example, ex_PxConfigOpen.g, and its configuration file (configtest.txt) are included in the product distribution. A copy of the configtext.txt configuration file is shown in the PxConfigRead reference page.

#!/usr/cogent/bin/phgamma

o = PxConfigOpen("configtest.txt", PXCONFIG_READ);
princ(o,"\n");

princ(int_p('a'), "\n");

princ("PxConfigReadInt    : ",PxConfigReadInt("Section One", "LineOne", 0),"\n");
princ("PxConfigReadLong   : ",PxConfigReadLong("Section One", "LineTwo", 0),"\n");
princ("PxConfigReadShort  : ",PxConfigReadShort("Section One", "LineThree",0),"\n");

princ("PxConfigReadChar   : ",PxConfigReadChar("Section Two", "LineTwo", 'x'),"\n");
princ("PxConfigReadString : ",PxConfigReadString("Section Two", "LineTwo", "nothing", 14),"\n");
princ("PxConfigReadString : ",PxConfigReadString("Section Two", "LineThree", "nothing", 14),"\n");

c = PxConfigClose();
princ(c,"\n");

See Also

In Photon documentation: PxConfigOpen.