Nickel

Nickel (Ni) is a library for hierarchical maps and .ini files.

Nickel is useful for loading, manipulating, and saving configuration data, among other things. An overview of Nickel can be found on its development page. It also has a freshmeat.net project: libnickel.

• Extremely fast. Written for use inside games.
• Flexible. Can be used any number of ways. Doesn’t impose a particular design paradigm on you.
• Robust. Handles all standard .ini files. Also extends the .ini file format for some extra features, like hierarchies.
• Slick. Advanced niceties to make your life easier.
• Portable. Compiles anywhere with a C99 compiler.

An extensive list of features is maintained with the project documentation.

See our sourceforge file releases page.

I’ve just released Nickel v1.1.0. This release fixes some minor bugs and improves on the library in many ways, though there are no new features. I recommend you get it right away. See also the change log.

Nickel v1.0.0 has been officially released upon an unsuspecting world!

Extensive documentation is maintained on the Nickel development site. Go there and read all the information I didn’t post here for brevity’s sake.

• Bug tracker
• Email the author: Charles Lindsay