INI or other file iteration

[Clay]

So its me again, with another question ...

Lets say I have a file with the follow structure

1: A,C,F

2: B,F,E

3: B,A,E

4: B,F,Z

and I wanted just like 3 and its contents and nothing else as in 3: B,A,E. ... how do I rip that from the file? is that possible ... or would I HAVE to read the entire file and then do a string compare by line?

EDIT: without using line numbers ... because the script will not know which sequence of strings it need before hand.

Edited June 4, 2008 by Clay

[Airwolf]

So its me again, with another question ...

Lets say I have a file with the follow structure

1: A,C,F

2: B,F,E

3: B,A,E

4: B,F,Z

and I wanted just like 3 and its contents and nothing else as in 3: B,A,E. ... how do I rip that from the file? is that possible ... or would I HAVE to read the entire file and then do a string compare by line?

The file will have to be searched somehow... I would suggest reading the lines to an array (_FileReadToArray), then just do a string comparison - as you explained - to find the line you are looking for. Edited June 4, 2008 by Airwolf123

[Pain]

a ini file should look like this

[something]

1=A,C,F

2=B,F,E

3=B,A,E

4=B,F,Z

iniread ($file, "something", "3")

[Clay]

Pain,

Thanks for the help....but my point is that I don't want to use the INI file structure... my script runs successfully right now using an ini file but rather I would prefer comma seperated lists. As in:

1: A,C,F

2: B,F,E

3: B,A,E

4: B,F,Z

1,2,3,4 could easily be

This: A,C,F

That: B,F,E

And: A,S,E

This: B,F,Z

I just want to know if there is anyway to grap just one line from a file... for instance if I set a variable to "This", can i navigate through a file and grap the first instance of this in the file and return the entire line

Edited June 4, 2008 by Clay

[evilertoaster]

The backround method of doing this will always read the whole file first. Even things like FileReadLine() simply read the file and skip ahead x number of CRLF's. So to answer the question is simply depends on how virtualized you need your perception of the operation to be. If you wrap it in a function, it would appear like it's just doing magic (like any other way of doing it).

eg-

Global $filePath = @ScriptDir&"\some.txt"
$Result = GetLine("That")
MsgBox(0,"",$Result)


Func GetLine($Search)
    $i=1
    While 1
        $Line=FileReadLine($filePath,$i)
        if @error then
            Return 0
        EndIf
        If StringMid($Line,1,StringLen($Search))=$Search Then
            ExitLoop
        EndIf
        $i=$i+1
    WEnd
    Return $line
EndFunc

[SmOke_N]

StringRegExp(FileRead(filename), "(?s)(?i)(?m:^|\n)" & $sFindMe & ".+?)", 1)

$sFindMe being the item to find (ie... 3 or "that")