Ini functions

[ResNullius]

I might have gone on thinking that because it worked for me that it was fine.

Not a problem, I think that's probably something we've all done: worked hard at creating a program or function that works perfectly in our isolated environments with varying sets of data/criteria, but as soon as we let it loose in the "wild" something goes haywire. I know it's happened to me (a lot!).

Thanks for the speedy response.

[SmOke_N]

"idiot" proof it sometimes... we wouldn't be implying anything now would we?

Ha... Not at all actually Sorry if it seemed that I was implying that.

[sg1kritik]

nice work thx for the share

[GEOSoft]

nice work thx for the share

Glad it helps you.

Smoke_N and I discussed merging his and mine together but never quite got around to it. Stay tuned, it might actually happen one of these days.

Edited November 9, 2007 by GEOSoft

[GEOSoft]

Just dragging this old thread up to add another func. This allows you to copy a complete section from an Ini file into another file. I had a need to do that for creating a temporary file which was later deleted.

;===============================================================================
; Function Name:    _INICopySection()
; Description:    Copy a complete section of an Ini file to another file
; Syntax:          _INICopySection("File Path & Name of file to copy from", "File Path & Name of file to copy to", "Section")
; Parameter(s):  
; Requirements:
; Return Value(s):  Copies a complete section from the input file to the output file.
; Author(s):        GEOSoft
;===============================================================================

Func _INICopySection($i_File, $o_File, $i_Section)
   Local $I, $iArray, $oSec = "", $nFile
   $nFile = FileOpen($o_File, 1)
   If @Error Then MsgBox(4096, "Error", "Unable to open the output file")
   $iArray = StringSplit(StringStripCR(FileRead($i_File)), @LF)
   $sSec = _ArraySearch($iArray, $i_Section, 0, 0, 0, True)
   If $sSec = -1 Then
      MsgBox(4096, "Error", "Unable to locate the requested section")
      Return SetError(1)
   EndIf
   $eSec = _ArraySearch($iArray, '[', $sSec +1, 0, 0, True)
   If $eSec <> -1 Then
      $eSec -=1
   Else
      $eSec = Ubound($iArray) -1
   EndIf
   For $I = $sSec To $eSec
      FileWriteLine($nFile, $iArray[$I])
   Next
   FileClose($nFile)
EndFunc ;<==> _INIAddSection($i_File, $i_Section, $i_Sort = 1)

I still want to get around to merging all of Smoke_Ns and Garys INI functions into a single file with mine. Hopefully soon.

In the meantime my functions from this thread are available in a zip file.

Ini.zip

Edited January 12, 2008 by GEOSoft

[MrCreatoR]

Hi GEOSoft,

Really good functions... i also work a lot with inis, and i also have few my own functions to handle the ini-structure files... such as _IniSectionExists() (with $sMask/RegExp support), _IniSectioncopy() (with Replace Flag), _IniWrite/ReadEx() (for UTF-8 support), _IniWriteMidle() (write to the certain line in section, or write before/after some text-line), and few more.

If i had more time, same as you, i would like to make a complete Ini_Library, collect all written functions here on the forum, and make some good UDF library... if only i had more free time

[GEOSoft]

Hi GEOSoft,

Really good functions... i also work a lot with inis, and i also have few my own functions to handle the ini-structure files... such as _IniSectionExists() (with $sMask/RegExp support), _IniSectioncopy() (with Replace Flag), _IniWrite/ReadEx() (for UTF-8 support), _IniWriteMidle() (write to the certain line in section, or write before/after some text-line), and few more.

If i had more time, same as you, i would like to make a complete Ini_Library, collect all written functions here on the forum, and make some good UDF library... if only i had more free time

Thanks MsCreator. I agree it's something that we have to get done. In the meantime I noticed a mistake in the header of this func So I'll edit the post now

[GEOSoft]

Based on a question in the General Help forum I have added a couple of functions to this UDF. Also the code in the first post has been replaced with a file link.

The new functions are _IniCopySection() and IniSortSectionByValue() Which will allow you to sort a section based on the key data values.

I also added sort order to the functions with the default always being ascending (0).

I have not added examples to the zip file yet but I hope to in the next few days.