Quick Parse Question

[gonzilla]

Hi,

Let's say I have a program that defines a few variables..

int var1, var2, var3;

Then, printing out those values to a file...

fprintf(fp,"%d,%d,%d", var1,var2,var3);

...is easy. But what if I don't know ahead of time which ones or even how many the user wants to print out?

char varString[80];

printf("Please enter the name of the variable you want to print: "
gets(varString);

The main thing here is, how can I associate the string entered by the user, with the name of the variable? Maybe I'm not thinking cleary on this, but I don't think I've run into this before.

Thanks for any help.

-Tyler

 

[Leibnitz]

#include <string.h>
{
FILE *fp;
.....//opening file
char varString[80];
int var1, var2, var3;
printf(&quot;Please enter the name of the variable you want to print: &quot;
gets(varString);
if( strstr( varString,&quot;var1&quot; ) != NULL )
fprintf(fp,&quot;%d&quot;, var1);
if( strstr( varString,&quot;var2&quot; ) != NULL )
fprintf(fp,&quot;%d&quot;, var1);
if( strstr( varString,&quot;var1&quot; ) != NULL )
fprintf(fp,&quot;%d&quot;, var1);

fclose(fp);
}