IniRenameSection without ereasing data?

[anony10]

Hi

I would like to use the IniRenameSection command without it erasing everything in that given section.

$openLearningDb = fileopen("test.txt", 1) ;open new database
   $desiredLines = iniRead("test123.ini", "base", "importx", "")
   $countEntries = _filecountlines("test.txt")
   if $desiredLines > $countEntries then
       msgbox(0, "", "there is less lines than what we need!")
   for $i = 1 to $desiredLines - $countEntries
      $importingArray = inireadsection("test123.ini", $i) ;import the desired lines
      _arraydisplay($importingArray)
      filewriteline($openLearningDb, $importingArray[2][1] & "|" & $importingArray[1][1]) ;write to the file
      inidelete("test123.ini", $i) ;delete them
  Next ;when done
  msgbox(0, "imported new words", "new words")
  endif

Every time the difference between $desiredLines and $countEntries is at least 1, this loop should run which is supposed to read the ini file, the first section (simply called [1]), write it into an other file and then delete this section from the ini file. This works flawlessly however the next time the difference is 1, there obviously will be no 1, as the lowest entry will be at least 2. I was thinking of using stringreplace for renaming, but that is way too brute for hundreds - if not thousands - of entries, and too much work. IniRenameSection would work, but that erases everything from the section, and saving everything first into a .tmp file or something and then rewriting it is not a way to go in my opinion. Any other ideas?

(I had this for renaming, but obviously this ends up erasing everything in the end)

;~    $getSectionNames = inireadsectionnames("test123.ini") ;get the no of sections
;~    for $i = 2 to $getSectionNames[0] ;loop through them and rename them to 1, 2, 3 etc
;~    inirenamesection("test123.ini", $getSectionNames[$i], $i - 1, 1)
;~    next
      ;_FileReadToArray2D("test.txt", $aArray, "|") ;load it to a 2D array
;~    msgbox(0, "sections renamed", "sections renamed")

[Melba23]

anony10,

 

IniRenameSection would work, but that erases everything from the section

Only if you set the "flag" parameter to 1 - if you leave it at 0 then the section is simply renamed as long as there is no existing section of that name:

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

$sIniName = "Test.ini"

$sIniData = "[1]" & @CRLF & "key1=value1" & @CRLF & "[2]" & @CRLF & "key2=value2" & @CRLF & "[3]" & @CRLF & "key3=value3"

FileWrite($sIniName, $sIniData)

IniRenameSection($sIniName, "2", "4") ; Default value for "flag" is 0

$sIniNew = FileRead($sIniName)

MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "New Ini", $sIniNew)

M23

[anony10]

Apparently I can't read... I feel so dumb, thank you M23, answering my stupid questions as usual

It does say in the reference (under the flag) however that "1 - Overwrite "new section". This will erase any existing keys in "new section"" so I either dont know how to english, or thats a typo?

[Melba23]

anony10,

If you set the flag to 0 then the rename will fail if the section name already exists - setting it to 1 means that it will replace an already existing section. Try running the script above again, but rename section [2] to section [3] - first with the flag at 0 and then 1. Make sure you delete the inifile after each run.

M23

[anony10]

Yes I see now, thank you very much once again.

[Melba23]

anony10,

My pleasure.

M23