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Hi, there is this file that have many different variables and values in it in the form of (variable=value)

How can I find a variable in that file, and change its value to something different (Similar to sed in Linux)?

Ex: File has this variable and value

IPADDRESS=10.10.10.10

and the name of the file is net.txt

How can I change IPADDRESS to 9.9.9.9 in that file

I tried:

StringRegExpReplace("IPADDRESS=10.10.10.10", "^IPADDRESS=.*$" "IPADDRESS=9.9.9.9")

but I do not know if there is afunction that would find the value in the file and replace it with what StringRegExpReplace returns.

Thank you

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... or like this :

$sContent = FileRead("file.txt")

$pattern = "(?m)^IPADDRESS=(\d+\.){3}\d+"
$sNewContent = StringRegExpReplace($sContent, $pattern, "IPADRESS=9.9.9.9")

FileWrite("file2.txt", $sNewcontent)

or more complex, to check the IP address format, but only be for the luxury :sweating:

$pattern = "(?xm) ^IPADDRESS=(?<!\d|\d\.) ( (?:(?:  (?:(?:25[0-5]  |  2[0-4]\d  |  1\d{2}  | [1-9]\d  |  \d  )\.){3}   (?:25[0-5]  |  2[0-4]\d  |  1\d{2}  | [1-9]\d  |  \d  )  ) " & _
" | " & _
"(?:  (?:(?:25[0-5]  |  2[0-4]\d  |  [0-1]\d{2}  |  (00)\d  )\.){3}   (?:25[0-5]  |  2[0-4]\d  |  [0-1]\d{2}  |  (?:00)\d) )) )  (?!\d|\.\d)"
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I will test those and see. The file will contain other variables and different values (hostnames, names, etc), so that it is why I have to use regular expressions. In sed I would do something like

sed -i "s|^IPADDRESS=.*$|19.9.9.9|g" file.txt but I had no idea how to do this in Autoit.

I will post back once I try your examples. Thank you

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I tried

$txt = FileRead("net.txt") 
$ref = "IPADDRESS" 
$newvalue = "9.9.9.9" 
$txt = StringRegExpReplace($txt, "(?<=" & $ref & "=)\S+", $newvalue) 
FileWrite("net2.txt", $txt)

but every time I run the script it duplicates the whole file content. I tried adding FileOpen/FileClose with different flags (Specially 2), but when I do that it does not work. How can I stop the script from duplicating the whole content of the file whenever I run it?

Thank you

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I got it working now, but the problem now is that when I add a value between the = sign and the value and expressions does not work.

Ex:  Variable=Value   (Works)

Ex: Variable = Value (Does not work)

BTW, I was reading and writing to the same file, so I just had to close the file, reopen it with fileOpen using the second flag that that did it.

Thank you

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What exactly does the contents of this file contain? Is it an INI file or something similar?

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Nah, if it was I woulda used InitRead. It has different variables and values for a config file Im working on

Ex:

Variable1=xyz

Variable2=qwe

Variable3=cwrvb3rb

I have to change the values according to what a user chooses in my GUI, so that is why I have to be able to find the Vriable and change its value depending on that the user chooses. I cannot convert this to ini format because the application I will be using this with does not support that format.

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Try with something like this :

$newvalue = "9.9.9.9"

$sContent = FileRead("file.txt")
$hFile = FileOpen("file.txt", 2)

$pattern = "(?im)^IPADDRESS(\h*)=(\h*).*$"
$sNewContent = StringRegExpReplace($sContent, $pattern, "IPADRESS${1}=${2}" & $newvalue)

ConsoleWrite($sNewContent)
FileWrite($hFile, $sNewContent)

FileClose($hFile)
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