Re: Using librec

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> Cool, thanks!
>
> So after doing the commands in your first email, I'd have to create an
> mset,  adapt the code in your second email, and then write to disk?

You will need to create a db, get its mset, add the record created below
to it, and write, yes :)

>
>
> On Thu, 6 May 2021, 13:25 Jose E. Marchesi, <jemarch@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> > Thanks for your quick response! If you don't mind, could you give me an
>> > example usage of creating a multi-set/record? Some functions need typedef
>> > function pointers, which I can't make heads or tails of.
>>
>> This is how you would create a rec_record_t with the following record:
>>
>>   Foo: bar
>>   # this is a comment
>>   Bar: baz
>>
>> The code:
>>
>>   rec_field_t f1 = rec_field_new ("Foo", "bar");
>>   rec_comment_t c = rec_comment_new ("this is a comment");
>>   rec_field_t f2 = rec_field_new ("Bar", "baz");
>>
>>   rec_record_t rec = rec_record_new ();
>>   rec_mset_t rec_elements = rec_record_mset (rec):
>>
>>   rec_mset_append (rec_elements, MSET_FIELD, f1, MSET_ANY);
>>   rec_mset_append (rec_elements, MSET_COMMENT, c, MSET_ANY);
>>   rec_mset_append (rec_elements, MSET_FIELD, f2, MSET_ANY);
>>
>> Working with record sets is similar: they also have a mset that contains
>> MSET_RECORD or MSET_COMMENT elements.
>>
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