how to append to an ini value?

[Hypertrophy]

how do I append to an ini value that already exists in an inifile.

f.e:

[Section1]
Key=value1 <<< append to this with comma

[Inverted]

Read the value to a string, append another string to that, then write the value

Edited July 7, 2009 by Inverted

[Mat]

IniWrite ("c:\test.ini", "section1", "key", IniRead ("c:\test.ini", "section1", "key") & ",")

that work?

MDiesel

[Hypertrophy]

Thank you mdiesel! That works perfect.

[Hypertrophy]

is this the correct way to check if a string exists as a key?

$string = "abc"
$keycheck = IniReadSection($inifile, "section1")    ; reads the section for all key/value pairs
If @error Then 
    MsgBox(0, "","Error")
Else
        For $i = 1 To $keycheck[0][0]
               If $keycheck[$i][0] = $string Then
                      msgbox(0,"","string 'abc' exists as key in ini file")
               Else
                      msgbox(0,"","string 'abc' not found..")
               EndIf
        Next
EndIf

Edited July 7, 2009 by Hypertrophy

[Robjong]

Hey,

try this, so you don't need a loop

$sKey = "abc"
If IniRead("file.ini", "section", $sKey, "#ITDOESNOTEXIST#") <> "#ITDOESNOTEXIST#" Then
    ConsoleWrite("Key '" & $sKey & "' exists." & @CRLF)
Else
    ConsoleWrite("Key '" & $sKey & "' does not exist." & @CRLF)
EndIf

Edited July 7, 2009 by Robjong

[Hypertrophy]

Wouldn't a loop be necessary though I there were 10 keys or 20 and you really had no idea of what they might be?

Edited July 7, 2009 by Hypertrophy

[Robjong]

Wouldn't a loop be necessary though I there were 10 keys or 20 and you really had no idea of what they might be?

If you want to match partial kays or values you would need a loop.

Not if you only need an exact match of the key, the last param of IniRead is the default return value for when the key does not exist, so when that value (in this case #ITDOESNOTEXIST#) is returned the key does not exist.

Read the help file for IniRead

Edited July 7, 2009 by Robjong

[Hypertrophy]

Ok. I think im starting to understand. so could i just do like this instead of having "#ITDOESNOTEXIST#"

$sKey = "abc"
If IniRead("file.ini", "section", $sKey, "") <> "" Then
    ConsoleWrite("Key '" & $sKey & "' exists." & @CRLF)
Else
    ConsoleWrite("Key '" & $sKey & "' does not exist." & @CRLF)
EndIf

Would that still work?

Edit: Nevermind, added ExitLoop and my code works perfect. Thanks for the help though.

Edited July 7, 2009 by Hypertrophy