D-styled data file

[Saaa]

>> I'm still dangling between a full parsing at load and parse on demand.
>> A parse on demand (get) would do the following steps:
>> Get the type of the variable in which the data must be stored (in string 
>> format)
>> Search for this type in every line of the char[][], when found check 
>> whether the name is the same
>> and then convert the chars to that type and place the data in the 
>> variable.
>
> This sounds complicated. Can you decide the input file format? Or is it 
> from some other program that you can't change?

The input file format would be like D
Like file.dat from the original post.
I just often have the need to save large arrays and other variables and I 
thought
why not just save them like the way I would use them in my modules.


>
> Suppose you already had this get function. How would you use it? An 
> example would help.

I use the get functions a few posts back, in the main:

---
void main()
{
 char[] filename = `data.dat`;
 char[][] file;

 try{
  file = splitlines( cast(char[])read(filename) );
 }
 catch{
  throw new Exception("Couldn't load : " ~ filename);
 }

 DData file_dd = new DData(file);
 int i;
 file_dd.get(`i`, i);
}
---

The data.dat should have a line like this to work:
--- data.dat
int i = 10;
---

I hope it all makes sense :)