What language should I use to write a text parser and display the results in a user friendly manner? [closed]

Answer 1

c/c++ or java... for c/c++ i have snippet that might help you:

FILE *f = fopen(file, "rb");
if(f == NULL) {
    return DBDEMON_OPEN_ERROR; // open fail
}

for(int i = 0; feof(f) == 0; i++)

{

fscanf(f,"%d %s %s %c\n",  &db[i].id, &db[i].name[0], &db[i].uid[0], &db[i].priviledge);

db_size++;

}

fclose(f);

this is reading a file with the following format:

int string string char

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to a struct define as follows:

typedef struct {

    unsigned int    id;
    char        name[DBDEMON_NAME_MAXSIZE];
    char        uid[DBDEMON_UID_MAXSIZE];
    char        priviledge;
} DATABASE;

Use fscanf with care, since no types are checked, etc, it can result in errors. But I think this is pretty efficient.