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                      4:             Of course, not only strings can be specified in the configuration file.
                      5:             libConfuse can parse strings, integers, booleans and floating point values.
                      6:             These are the fundamental values, and they are all also available as lists.
                      7:             We'll talk more about lists in the next chapter.
                      8:         </p><p>
                      9:             The macros used to initialize a string, integer, boolean and a
                     10:             float is, respectively, <code class="function">CFG_STR()</code>,
                     11:             <code class="function">CFG_INT()</code>, <code class="function">CFG_BOOL()</code>,
                     12:             <code class="function">CFG_FLOAT()</code> and
                     13:             <code class="function">CFG_PTR()</code>. All macros take three parameters:
                     14:             the name of the option, a default value and flags. To retrieve the
                     15:             values, use <code class="function">cfg_getstr()</code>,
                     16:             <code class="function">cfg_getint()</code>,
                     17:             <code class="function">cfg_getbool()</code>,
                     18:             <code class="function">cfg_getfloat()</code> or
                     19:             <code class="function">cfg_getptr()</code>, respectively.
                     20:         </p><p>
                     21:             Let's introduce an integer option that tells us how many times to print the
                     22:             greeting:
                     23:         </p><a id="listing3"></a><pre class="programlisting">
                     24: 1      #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
                     25: 2      #include &lt;confuse.h&gt;
                     26: 3      
                     27: 4      int main(void)
                     28: 5      {
                     29: 6          cfg_opt_t opts[] =
                     30: 7          {
                     31: 8              CFG_STR("target", "World", CFGF_NONE),
                     32: 9              CFG_INT("repeat", 1, CFGF_NONE),
                     33: 10             CFG_END()
                     34: 11         };
                     35: 12         cfg_t *cfg;
                     36: 13         int repeat;
                     37: 14     
                     38: 15         cfg = cfg_init(opts, CFGF_NONE);
                     39: 16         if(cfg_parse(cfg, "hello.conf") == CFG_PARSE_ERROR)
                     40: 17             return 1;
                     41: 18     
                     42: 19         repeat = cfg_getint(cfg, "repeat");
                     43: 20         while(repeat--)
                     44: 21             printf("Hello, %s!\n", cfg_getstr(cfg, "target"));
                     45: 22     
                     46: 23         cfg_free(cfg);
                     47: 24         return 0;
                     48: 25     }
                     49: 26     
                     50: </pre><p>
                     51:             Here we have used the <code class="function">CFG_INT()</code> macro to
                     52:             initialize an integer option named "repeat". The default value is 1
                     53:             as in the standard greeting. The value is retrieved with
                     54:             <code class="function">cfg_getint()</code>.
                     55:         </p><p><a id="negative-repeat-problem"></a>
                     56:             But, wait a moment, what if the user specified a negative value for
                     57:             "repeat"?  Or a too large positive value? libConfuse can handle
                     58:             that with a so-called validating callback. We'll come back to this
                     59:             problem later on, but we will first take a look at lists.
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