al_get_first_config_section(3alleg5)

💖 NAME 💖

al_get_first_config_section — the Allegro 5 API function that gets you the very first section of a config, bestie ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <allegro5/allegro.h>

char const *al_get_first_config_section(ALLEGRO_CONFIG const *config,
   ALLEGRO_CONFIG_SECTION **iterator)

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so picture this: you've got a config file, right, and it's full of sections, and you need to start at the very top. That's literally what this does, no cap. It returns the name of the first section in the given config file. 🫶

And usually? Usually it hands you back an empty string for the global section — yes, even if it contains no values. The global section is just built different like that. 💅

Meanwhile the iterator parameter receives an opaque iterator, and that's the little guy you pass along to al_get_next_config_section(3alleg5) so you can keep strolling through all the remaining sections. It's giving relay race. 🏃‍♀️✨

⚠️ bestie listen — the returned string and the iterator are only valid as long as no change is made to the ALLEGRO_CONFIG you passed in. Touch the config, and your string and iterator are done. Gone. Deceased. 💀 So don't go editing stuff while you're still holding onto them, okay? 🙈

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• al_get_next_config_section(3alleg5) — the sequel, the part two, the next section 💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was pulled straight from the Allegro reference manual, and the page itself is al_get_first_config_section(3alleg5) — go forth and iterate, ily, mwah 🎀💖✨