Re: template library or mailbox library for C

[Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik]

On 20:24:56 2007-10-15 "Pawel Kot" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any good text template library for C? To be clear, I mean
> library that would help me in the following situation:
> 
> I want to output (or rather return as char *) an SMS as an email in
> mbox format. Straightforward way is:
> 
> sprintf(tmp, "From address@hidden %s", number, date);
> strcat(buf, tmp);
> sprintf(tmp, "From: address@hidden", number);
> strcat(buf, tmp);
> ...
> 
> And all the ugly stuff wrt allocating memory.
> 
> Other solution I could think of is:
> #define MAIL_TEMPLATE \
> "From address@hidden %s" \
> "From: address@hidden" \
> ....
> sprintf(buf, MAIL_TEMPLATE, number, date, number, ...);
> 
> That's still ugly but somehow better. And allocating stuff is not that
> bad.
> 
> Is there any library that would allow me to create such email in an
> easy way? Or more generic solution that would allow me to define a
> template:
> #define MAIL_TEMPLATE \
> "From address@hidden %date%" \
> "From: address@hidden" \
> 
> replace(buf, MAIL_TEMPLATE, number, date, ...);
> that would do everything for me?
> 

Might try libetpan

http://libetpan.sourceforge.net

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