Function getValueForStringTableKey

Trash/stringTable.c:149–192

looks in table for strings of format << "key" = "value"; >> or << "key"; >>

// looks in table for strings of format << "key" = "value"; >>
// or << "key"; >>
BOOL getValueForStringTableKey(char *table, char *key, char **val, INTN *size)
{
	INTN keyLength;
	char *tableKey;

	do
	{
		eatThru('\"',&table);
		tableKey = table;
		keyLength = strlen(key);
		if (keyLength &&
		    (stringLength(table,1) == keyLength) &&
		    (keyncmp(key, table, keyLength) == 0))
		{
			INTN c;
			
			/* found the key; now look for either
			 * '=' or ';'
			 */
			while (c = *table) {
			    ++table;
			    if (c == '\\') {
				++table;
				continue;
			    } else if (c == '=' || c == ';') {
				break;
			    }
			}
			if (c == ';') {
			    table = tableKey;
			} else {
			    eatThru('\"',&table);
			}
			*val = table;
			*size = stringLength(table,0);
			return YES;
		}

		eatThru(';',&table);

	} while (*table);

	return NO;
}


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