stringTools Includes I created.

Anyways, when I was building my game engine I needed some way to open and read configuration files, and later when I was trying to develop the scripting system this proved quite useful. I'm also building a method hooker to hook multiple methods. I will be posting the source code for the method hooker a little later. Anyways, here's an example of I'm using them for(given you divide each line into a buffer) :

With a couple lines of C++ code using the methods you can load all that into an array of structs or however you want to organize them.
Here's the headers :
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#pragma once
#include <windows.h>
char* splitString (char* secondHalfBuffer, char* stringToSplit, char devideChar = ':');
bool startsWith (char* prefix , char* msg);
int extractInt (char* msg , char split = ':');
char* extractString(char* msg , char split = ':');
bool extractBool(char* msg, char split = ':', char* trueVal = "YES");
DWORD extractHexDword(char* msg, char split = ':');
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The source files
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#include "stdafx.h"
#include "stdlib.h"
#include "stringTools.h"
#include <windows.h>

char* splitString(char* secondHalfBuffer, char* stringToSplit,char devideChar) {
char* buffer = new char[strlen(stringToSplit)];
memset(buffer, 0, strlen(stringToSplit));

for(unsigned int i = 0; i < strlen(stringToSplit); i++) {
if(stringToSplit[i] == devideChar) {
for(unsigned int x = i + 1; x < strlen(stringToSplit) + i; x++)
buffer[x - i - 1] = stringToSplit[x];
break;
}else
if(secondHalfBuffer != NULL)
secondHalfBuffer[i] = stringToSplit[i];
}
return buffer;
}

bool startsWith(char* prefix, char* msg) {
for(unsigned int i = 0; i < strlen(prefix); i++)
if(prefix[i] != msg[i])
return false;
return true;
}

int extractInt(char* msg, char split) {
char* buffer = new char[sizeof(msg)];
char* returnBuffer = new char[sizeof(msg)];
memset(buffer, 0, sizeof(buffer));
memset(returnBuffer, 0, sizeof(returnBuffer));

if(split != NULL)
buffer = splitString(NULL, msg, split);
else
buffer = msg;

for(unsigned int i = 0;i < strlen(buffer); i++)
if(buffer[i] == ';')
break;
else
returnBuffer[i] = buffer[i];

return (atoi(returnBuffer));

}

char* extractString(char* msg, char split) {
char* buffer = new char[strlen(msg)];
char* returnBuffer = new char[strlen(msg)];
memset(buffer, 0, strlen(msg));
memset(returnBuffer, 0, strlen(msg));

if(split != NULL)
buffer = splitString(NULL, msg, split);
else
buffer = msg;

for(unsigned int i = 0;i < strlen(buffer); i++)
if(buffer[i] == ';')
break;
else
returnBuffer[i] = buffer[i];

return returnBuffer;

}
DWORD extractHexDword(char* msg, char split) {
DWORD returnVar;
char* buffer = extractString(msg, split);
sscanf(buffer,"%u",&returnVar);
return returnVar;
}

bool extractBool(char* msg, char split, char* trueVal) {
if(strcmp(extractString(msg, split), trueVal) == 0)
return true;
else
return false;
}
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Their functions should be self-explanatory.

Yo, aside from this looking good, you're into game design sir?

I've only finished my Bleach Trading Card game, Haha. I of course plan to move on. Let us chat on this subject sometime.