Parse config file in C/C++

Question

I\'m a newbie looking for a fast and easy way to parse a text file in C or C++ (wxWidgets)

The file will look something like this (A main category with \"sub-objects

Answer 1

It looks more straightforward to implement your own parser than to try to adapt an existing one you are unfamiliar with.

Your structure seems - from your example - to be line-based. This makes parsing it easy.

It generally makes sense to load your file into a tree, and then walk around it as necessary.