#include <fstream.hfa>
#include "parseconfig.hfa"

bool comments( ifstream & in, char * name ) {
	while () {
		in | name;
	  if ( fail( in ) ) return true;
	  if ( name[0] != '#' ) break;
		in | nl;	// ignore remainder of line
	} // for
	return false;
} // comments

// Process the configuration file to set the simulation parameters.
void parse_config( const char * config_file, config_entry entries[], size_t num_entries ) {
	ifstream in;
	try {
		open( in, config_file );							// open the configuration file for input

		while () {
			char * key;
			char * value;
		  if ( comments( in, key ) ) break;			// eof ?
		  	// Should we just overwrite duplicate config entries? Having a hash map would make this much easier
			in | value;
			if ( value < 0 ) {
				close( in );
				exit | "Error: file \"" | configFile | "\" parameter " | name
					 | " value " | value | " must be non-negative.";
			} // if
		  if ( fail( in ) ) break;
		  	in | nl; // ignore remainder of line
		} // for
	} catch( Open_Failure * ex; ex->istream == &in ) {
		exit | "Error: could not open input file \"" | config_file | "\"";
	} // try
	close( in );
	// *** WE MUST ALLOW SOME SORT OF VALIDATION FUNCTIONALITY TOO!!! ***
} // processConfigFile

// Local Variables: //
// tab-width: 4 //
// compile-command: "cfa parseconfig.cfa" //
// End: //