Replacement for ini files

[ame1011]

Hey there, currently I am storing Question/Answer pairs in '.ini' files and for the most part this is working out for me. However, problems arise when the questions or answers have line breaks or '=' characters in them. I was wondering if there is any better method of storing these values without the need to install external apps (such as databases).

Should there be no alternative, I plan to just replace all illegal characters with a legal one (e.g. '=' would become '|') but I thought I'd just pose this question first.

[Mast3rpyr0]

im not sure but maybe you have to slash it like \= or something. if not just change it to some other character and if you need to in your script add something that will find |'s and make them = signs

[ame1011]

yup, like I said that's what I plan to do. Just wondering if theres something out there that will allow me to keep my questions intact.

[Zacharot]

here's my take:

to store the Q&A properly, all you'd need is to convert the CR and LF into something else, then make a file with alternating pairs of questions, answers, example:

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Valik

see? then you load it into an array with _FileToArray(), or whatever it is, and access the question's by accessing the odd's (count is kept in 0, so first is at 1) and the answer is the next in the array

simple enough?

StringReplace($line,@CR,"|CR|") works well for me.

Edited June 23, 2007 by Zacharot

[PsaltyDS]

yup, like I said that's what I plan to do. Just wondering if theres something out there that will allow me to keep my questions intact.

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