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Re: [help-texinfo] Info file format spec?
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Robert Dodier |
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Re: [help-texinfo] Info file format spec? |
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Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:16:41 -0700 |
Eli, thanks for your reply.
Byte offset of what? and what is ``length of each item'', exactly?
Can you show an example?
E.g. let's say an info file FOO.info-4 contains something like
-- Function: foo (x, y, z)
Blah, blah, blah.
-- Function: bar (a, b, c)
Mumble mumble blurf.
Let's say the first byte of " -- Function: foo" is byte 1729, and the
first byte of " -- Function: bar" is byte 1755. Then I'd like to build
(or get makeinfo to build for me) a table with elements like
"foo", "FOO.info-4", 1729, 26.
I want to use that table to find (by comparing a input string against
"foo", "bar", etc) the text for "foo", read just that much text
(open "FOO.info-4" and then seek 1755 bytes and then read
26 bytes), and print that text.
Thanks again for your help.
Robert Dodier