Questinon about INI files

[madmorgan]

hello all,

i have a few INI files holding information like this.

file 1

[title01]

........

.......

[title02]

......

......

file 2

[info01]

.......

.......

[info02]

......

......

my question is how can i search throw all these files for sertion bits of information.

so if i want to load all of [title01] and [info01] at the same time to a gui

and then lator load [title88] and [info88].

i have looked in the help file and i cant work it out so if any one knows please help me many thanks.

[Melba23]

madmorgan,

If you want read a whole section at a time, then IniReadSection is the command to use. You get all of the key=value pairs into an array which you can then search or display as you wish in your GUI.

M23

[madmorgan]

so if i used inireadselection to look of all sections from each file and that loads to an arry so how would i search throw that arry??? for somthing like 88 for [title88]??

hop i make sense.

[GEOSoft]

http://dundats.mvps.org/help/html/libfunctions/_ArraySearch.htm

Carefuly study the parameters paying particular attention to $iPartial and $iSubItem

Edited February 15, 2010 by GEOSoft

[Melba23]

madmorgan,

IniReadSection will only read the section you specify.

i want to load all of [title01] and [info01]

To read these sections you would do something like this:

$a_title01 = IniReadSection ( "file1", "title01" )
$a_info01 = IniReadSection ( "file2", "info01" )

You will now have 2 arrays holding all of the key-value pairs from those 2 sections. You can use _ArraySearch to look for the specific key or value you want within them.

M23

[madmorgan]

thanks for the help guys but here is a image of what i want to try to get done hop this helps with what i want and might help you all under stand what i want to do better.

[GEOSoft]

It would help even more if you gave us at least one example of the data structure used in the ini files.

[madmorgan]

ok here are two files i have so far.

if titleo1 is clicked then i want the information from info01 to link to it.

Title.ini

[title01]

Borderlands

[title02]

avatar

[title03]

pandorum

Dec.ini

[dec01]

infomation comming soon

[info02]

information comming soon

[info03]

information comming soon

[GEOSoft]

ok here are two files i have so far.

if titleo1 is clicked then i want the information from info01 to link to it.

Title.ini

[title01]

Borderlands

[title02]

avatar

[title03]

pandorum

Dec.ini

[dec01]

infomation comming soon

[info02]

information comming soon

[info03]

information comming soon

Therein lies the problem with using ini functions. That is not a properly structured Ini file. This could really all be written in a single file or use a single Ini file and a flat text file (as you have now for the Dec.ini file) in which case prudent use of StringRegExp() will work nicely.

For Title.ini

[Titles]

title1=Borderlands

title2=avatar

title3=pandorum

Then you could use IniReadSection($sIni, "titles")

$sIni = "Title.ini"
$aResults = IniReadSection($sIni, "Titles")

Dec.txt

[borderlands]

infomation comming soon

[avatar]

information comming soon

[pandorum]

information comming soon

To bring it all together

$sIni = "Title.ini"
$sText = FileRead("dec.txt")
$aResults = IniReadSection($sIni, "Titles")

$sStr = FileRead($
;; All of the following can be replaced depending on what you want to do with the data.  I'm using a loop to demonstrate it
For $i = 1 To Ubound($aResults) -1
    $sResult = StringRegExpReplace($sText, "(?i)(?s).*\[" & $aResults[$i][1] & "\v+(.*?)(?:\[|\z).*", "$1")
    MsgBox(0, "result", $sResult)
Next

Note: I don't have time to test that RegExReplace but I think it's close and probably works as is

[GEOSoft]

any one got any idears?

Please don't bump threads. Sometrimes you just have to wait patiently for a reply. Read my signature in respect to bumping

[madmorgan]

it was one of my own comments i removed.

[GEOSoft]

it was one of my own comments i removed.

Did you try creating the files as I suggested and then running the code?