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Message: [QUOTE="Chris Dollin, post: 3681362"] `fgets` to read lines, `strchr` to find characters, `malloc` to allocate space -- that sort of thing? Mmmm. All the values had better have the same type, then. No. You'll have to map from the name to the value. Or you could just look the things up on demand. /Someone/ has to have that mapping. This is "Mr Bare Bones" C, so it's the programmers job to define the mapping. I'd just have a hash table mapping the keys (eg "some.key2") to their values ("val2") and load that from the property file. I'm likely to have hash-table code around anyway, so I'd use that. I wouldn't bother with the `keys` array: for rarely-accessed elements I don't think it's worth it, for frequently-accessed elements I'd probably end up stuffing them into some context object with a more useful access path than `keys[ENUM]`. Not built-in, no. [/QUOTE]