Been playing around with 
Lua scripting language. It's quite a nice way to get data and AI processing text files into a C++ (or any) language program. There's a 
Lua Dev-Pak that works with Dev-CPP and Code::Blocks.
Here's a sample C++ app with Lua data and script files. If you use 
Code::Blocks IDE, then there's a workspace file in there as well.
[edit]eh, the forum attach d/l is bugging out, so 
here's a link.