get_config_argv(3)

💖 get_config_argv — the Allegro manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay so bestie, you're reading the Allegro manual page for get_config_argv(3), and honestly? it's giving "tiny function, big energy". let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

get_config_argv — reads a token list from the configuration file. Allegro game programming library. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <allegro.h>

char **get_config_argv(const char *section, const char *name, int
*argc);

no cap, that's the whole signature. three args, one return. slay. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so what this cutie does is: it reads a token list — that's just words separated by spaces, iykyk — out of the current config file. 🌸

⚠️ THE IMPORTANT PART, bestie, do not skip this: the token list gets stored in a temporary buffer that will be clobbered by the next call to get_config_argv(). so do not expect that data to persist. it's a one-night-stand buffer, not a forever buffer. copy it if you need it to stick around 😭

✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

• it returns an argv-style argument list 👑 and it sets argc to the number of retrieved tokens.
• if the variable isn't present? it returns NULL and sets argc to zero. literally nothing. empty. a void. 💀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read these next, they're all in the same friend group 🦋

• set_config_file(3)
• get_config_string(3)
• get_config_float(3)
• get_config_hex(3)
• get_config_int(3)
• get_config_id(3)
• exconfig(3)

and that's the page!! this was the Allegro manual, version 4.4.3, and the function is get_config_argv(3) — go forth and tokenize responsibly, bestie 🧚💜 ✨