load std::map from text file

Question

This is a very simple thing, so I want to keep it as simple as it sounds. All I want is to load a bunch of key-value paires from a file, and populate them in to a map. I do

Answer 1

If you are in the MS world you can use

GetPrivateProfileSectionNames
GetPrivateProfileString
WritePrivateProfileString

to read from ini file or regestry. If you want to write Unicode make sure a newly created file gets the BOM of UTF16.