Converting string to variable

[Hest]

I'm having a little problem converting a string to a variable.

I'm reading an .ini file and have key1=value1 but in my script, I need to change "key1" into $key1

How can I add that $ in the front

Edit: spelling

Edited July 30, 2008 by Hest

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

just FileRead and then StringReplace FileWrite.

Mega

[Hest]

I have tried stringreplace, but I cant get it working. Whats wrong in this

$string is key1

$string = StringReplace($var[$i][0], start, "$")

[Xenobiologist]

I have tried stringreplace, but I cant get it working. Whats wrong in this

$string is key1

$string = StringReplace($var[$i][0], start, "$")

Hi,

I cannot follow you. Start needs quotes or should it be a variable? What error?

Mega

[Hest]

The qoutes around start got rid of the error, so I'm half way there now but I'm not getting the $ in front of key1

When I read my .ini file, I have $var[1][0] and $var[1][1] from the first line, they are: "key1" and "value1" from line one, "key2" and "value2" from line two and so on.

What I want to do now, is make the string "key1" into $key1 = "value1" and the next $key2 = "value2" and so on.

Here is the code Im using to read everything

$var = IniReadSection("lang.ini", "language")
        If @error Then 
            MsgBox(4096, "", "ini file does not exist.")
    Else

    for $i = 1 to $var[0][0]
        $string = StringReplace($var[$i][0], "start", "$")  
    next
    endif

Im not sure I have explained it right. What I need is just to turn every key from the .ini into a variable with the value without using $ in the .ini

Edited July 30, 2008 by Hest

[Xenobiologist]

Hi,

you can try this:

Global $content = FileRead(@ScriptDir & '\section.ini')
Global $re = StringRegExp($content, '\w+(?=\=)', 3)
For $i = 0 To UBound($re) -1
    $content = StringReplace($content, $re[$i], '$' & $re[$i])
Next
FileWrite(FileOpen(@ScriptDir & '\section.ini', 2), $content)

Mega

[YellowLab]

I think one function you may want to look at is "Assign."

Here are the steps I think you want to take:

1) read the section of the INI file. This results in a two dimensional array: $array[n][0] is the KEY name, $array[n][1] is the value.

2) loop through the array and Assign($array[n][0], $array[n][1])

Outline Code looks like this (not tested):

$arSections = IniReadSections("MYINIFILE.INI")
For $nSections = 1 to Ubound($arSections)-1
   $arINI = IniReadSeciton("MYINIFILE.INI",$arSections[$nSections])
   For $nCount = 1 to Ubound($arINI) - 1
      Assign($arINI[$nCount][0],$arINI([$ncount][1]))
   Next
Next

This assumes that there are no keys with the same name in different sections. If this is the case, the one in the latest section will over write earlier ones.

Hope this helps.

Bob

Edited July 30, 2008 by YellowLab

[Hest]

Thx to both of you. I will try to change my script and see if it works