## Resources

### FUNCTIONS

      FILE * open_resource(char *file, char *resource, long *length);
      int    file_has_resources(char *file);

### NOTES

The open_resource function attempts to locate a named resource within a given file. A resource is a sub-file, associated with a file using the AddRes tool available from the tools folder. This function returns an open file pointer, pointing to the located resource.

The resource descriptor string can be a regular expression as described in the section on regular expressions. The first matching resource will be used if there are several matching names.

If the resource is found, the return value will be non-NULL, and the length parameter will point to the length in bytes of the resource (which will be zero or greater). If the resource is not found, the return value will be NULL, and the length parameter will point to zero.

The file pointer returned by this function will not signal EOF when the resource has ended. Rather, the length parameter must be used, or the resource must have a way of telling the program that it has ended. For example, an embedded image file may contain a marker meaning "end of image". For embedded text files, the zero byte which separates one resource from the next may be the only other way to determine this end point.

The file_has_resources function returns non-zero if the named file ends with the byte sequence that specifies a resource file, otherwise it returns zero. The byte sequence is `"\nApp Resource File Type 1\n"`.