Re: Transparent accessing structure members in a loop

From:
Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:01:08 +0100
Message-ID:
<m1d3pps7qj.fsf@ip1-201.halifax.rwth-aachen.de>
"Madhur" <sdf@df.com> writes:

Hello,
Suppose I have a structure like this:

struct LOGFILE
{
   char timeStamp[100];
   char Message1[100];
   char Message2[100];
   char Message3[100];
   char Message4[100];
   char Message5[100];

};

I have a memory mapped file (baiscally) and I want to read the file
and assign the values to this structure. Since the file is
unstructured in memory , I will parse and look for tab breaks and
assign values accordingly.

Now, I want to do this in a loop. For ex:
LOGFILE *logFile; //Assume points to valid structure
void *fileData; //Pointer to file in memory (beginning)

for (int i=0;i<fileSizeByte;i++)
{

       if(data=='\t')
       {
           memcpy(spLog->timeStamp,fileData,i);
       }

}

Now , as the next text is found after tab, I want to copy it in
message1, then message 2 and so on. And then repeat copying to the new
structure pointer. Is it possible to do it transparently, without
explicitly duplicating the code for each structure member ?

Thanks,
Madhur


Well in C++ I don't think you should use char[] and memcpy almost at
all.
I have something which reads line and store them and I use something like

    std::ifstream ifs(config_file, std::ifstream::in);

    char buf[MAX_LINE_LENGTH];
    while (ifs.good()) {
        ifs.getline(buf, MAX_LINE_LENGTH);
        std::string b = buf;

the char[] is only temporary, then I only use strings which have the
right size.
Maybe it can be done even better.
Then you should maybe do something like
std::map<string, string>

to store and iterate over your data...

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