Read delimiters from .ini file

[jbennett]

Hi,

I have a quick question...

I have an .ini file that has a piece of data that I would look to read but it doesn't seem to be working.

I have a feeling that it's due to the delimiters in the data, is there any way of reading this data into the code.

[TEST]
days=1,2,3,4

I know how to read ini files, just not with delimiters. Thanks

[dbzfanatic]

What exactly does it return? IniRead() should return a string so afaik delimiters shouldn't be a problem but if you show some example output as well as the sample ini it might help.

[Aceguy]

1st you

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for $i = 1 to $split[0]
msgbox(0,"","Element "&$i&" is "&$split[$i],2)
next

[jbennett]

Hi,

Thanks for that.

The only problem I have is that it works in a msgbox but not in this code

Do you have any ideas why?

Note - I have only pasted a little piece of the code here...

$scheduled_backup_days = IniRead(@scriptdir & "\Configuration.ini", "SCHEDULE_CONFIG", "scheduled_backup_days","")

$read_scheduled_backup_days=stringsplit($scheduled_backup_days,",")
for $i = 1 to $read_scheduled_backup_days[0]
next

    Switch @WDAY    
    case $read_scheduled_backup_days

[PsaltyDS]

$scheduled_backup_days = IniRead(@scriptdir & "\Configuration.ini", "SCHEDULE_CONFIG", "scheduled_backup_days","")

$read_scheduled_backup_days=stringsplit($scheduled_backup_days,",")
for $i = 1 to $read_scheduled_backup_days[0]
next
    Switch @WDAY    
    case $read_scheduled_backup_days

Why is 'Next' before the content of the loop?

Your reference to the array requires an index, like: case $read_scheduled_backup_days[$i]

The string split and loop are not required anyway. Just do:

If StringInStr($scheduled_backup_days, @WDAY) Then
; ...do something
EndIf

[jbennett]

hmm now i'm confused.

Normally I would have..

Switch @WDAY    
    case 3

which then continues to run some code if it's Tuesday. But I want to be able to define the day(s) in an .ini file.

Ofcourse if there is more than 1 day then it doesn't read the .ini as the .ini would then display 2,3 for example.

thanks

EDIT

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The code below works but I can only have one number in the .ini

e.g

[sCHEDULE_CONFIG]

scheduled_backup_days=2

$scheduled_backup_days = IniRead(@scriptdir & "\Configuration.ini", "SCHEDULE_CONFIG", "scheduled_backup_days","")

Switch @WDAY    
    case $scheduled_backup_days

Edited October 23, 2008 by jbennett

[PsaltyDS]

hmm now i'm confused.

Normally I would have..

Switch @WDAY    
    case 3

which then continues to run some code if it's Tuesday. But I want to be able to define the day(s) in an .ini file.

Ofcourse if there is more than 1 day then it doesn't read the .ini as the .ini would then display 2,3 for example.

thanks

I'm not sure where you are getting lost?

The following reads the INI:

$scheduled_backup_days = IniRead(@scriptdir & "\Configuration.ini", "SCHEDULE_CONFIG", "scheduled_backup_days","")

So $scheduled_backup_days now = "1,2,3,4".

Then you check if @WDAY is in that list:

If StringInStr($scheduled_backup_days, @WDAY) Then
     ; ...do something
EndIf

Switch/Case is not required, as far as I can tell.

Edited October 23, 2008 by PsaltyDS

[jbennett]

I need to keep the switch/case.

All i'm struggling with is

case 'something'

where 'something' is read from the .ini, whether thats 2,3 or just 2 etc

thanks

EDIT

---

the code does work, but only with 1 number in the .ini. (Refer to post #6)

Edited October 23, 2008 by jbennett

[PsaltyDS]

I need to keep the switch/case.

All i'm struggling with is

case 'something'

where 'something' is read from the .ini, whether thats 2,3 or just 2 etc

thanks

EDIT

---

the code does work, but only with 1 number in the .ini. (Refer to post #6)

Then you can change it from Switch/Case to Select/Case, and use it like this:

$scheduled_backup_days = IniRead(@scriptdir & "\Configuration.ini", "SCHEDULE_CONFIG", "scheduled_backup_days","")
If StringInStr($scheduled_backup_days, @WDAY) Then
    Select
        Case StringInStr($scheduled_backup_days, "1")
    ; Do something if Sunday is in the list
    
        Case StringInStr($scheduled_backup_days, "2")
    ; Do something if Monday is in the list

        Case StringInStr($scheduled_backup_days, "3")
    ; Do something if Tuesday is in the list
    EndSelect
EndIf

Note that with either Switch/Case or Select/Case, it will siop processing when it gets a match and not check the rest of the Cases. Is that really what you wanted?

Edit: Added check for @WDAY first.

Edited October 23, 2008 by PsaltyDS

[jbennett]

Note that with either Switch/Case or Select/Case, it will siop processing when it gets a match and not check the rest of the Cases. Is that really what you wanted?

Yep I want it to stop processing.

The only problem I have is that ideally I wanted to keep the numbers within 1 case.

For instance with my code at the moment if I put "Case 1,2,3" then if it's one of these days it will run the code. I didn't want to split up the days

Main reason is because I don't want to define the numbers in the code.

thanks

EDIT

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Maybe I could try something like

Case StringInStr($scheduled_backup_days, "1","2","3","4","5","6","7")

run CODE A

Case StringInStr($other_days, "1","2","3","4","5","6","7")

run CODE B

Edited October 23, 2008 by jbennett

[jbennett]

I've got a better idea, which is....

$scheduled_backup_days = IniRead(@scriptdir & "\Configuration.ini", _ 
"SCHEDULE_CONFIG", "scheduled_backup_days","")

Switch @WDAY    
case $scheduled_backup_days
RUN CODE A

case Else
RUN CODE B
EndSwitch

Then in my .ini I can put in the necessary date any any other dates will just use "case Else"

Just a shame I can't put more days in "case $scheduled_backup_days"

Edited October 23, 2008 by jbennett

[PsaltyDS]

I've got a better idea, which is....

$scheduled_backup_days = IniRead(@scriptdir & "\Configuration.ini", _ 
"SCHEDULE_CONFIG", "scheduled_backup_days","")

Switch @WDAY    
case $scheduled_backup_days
RUN CODE A

case Else
RUN CODE B
EndSwitch

Then in my .ini I can put in the necessary date any any other dates will just use "case Else"

Just a shame I can't put more days in "case $scheduled_backup_days"

Now you are confusing me. I don't think that will work because @WDAY is a single digit and will not compare correctly to "1,2,3,4". Also, I don't see how that, if it did work, would be different from this:

$scheduled_backup_days = IniRead(@scriptdir & "\Configuration.ini", _ 
"SCHEDULE_CONFIG", "scheduled_backup_days","")

If StringInStr($scheduled_backup_days, @WDAY) Then
       RUN CODE A
Else
       RUN CODE B
EndIf

[jbennett]

It's the same idea as you just posted. Mine works :-)

But I can only have 1 day in the .ini file

It's not really a requirement to have more than 1 day set as a schedule but just for my personal knowledge it would have been useful to know how to add this to the code so I can specify more than 1 day to run CODE A

Basically CODE A is a scheduled backup that the user will specify the day in the .ini file.

and CODE B will run the backup on the other days if it has not been run in CODE A (and if reminders are set to YES in the .ini but I don't want to confuse you).

It all works perfectly well, just the fact that I can only set 1 day as a schedule day. Not that it really matters but was just interested to know how.

thanks

EDIT

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A very easy way of adding more days would be to just put it in the .ini file

[sCHEDULE]

Schedule1=2

Schedule2=3

Schedule3=4

and then just put

case $scheduled1, $schedule2,$schedule3

If I created a GUI for the .ini then it wouldn't be a big deal to me. Just an idea.

Edited October 23, 2008 by jbennett