Yathosho
9th December 2002 01:16 UTC

determine highest value in a specified section
  long time ago, smile2me helped me on a script i used on an add-on for mIRC:

Function FindNumber

 Exch$0

 Push$1

 Push$2

 StrCpy$1 "0"


>loop:

>IntOp $1 $1 + 1

 StrCpy$2 $0 1 $1

 StrCmp$2 "=" 0 loop

 StrCpy$0 $0 $1

 Pop$2

 Pop$1

 Exch$0

FunctionEnd


Section-config

 StrCpy $R9 "0"

>fileopen $0 "servers.ini" "r"


>Loop:

>fileread $0 $1

 StrCmp$1 "" ExitLoop

 StrCpy$2 $1 1

 StrCmp$2 "n" 0 Loop

 StrCpy$2 $1 "" 1

 Push$2

 Call FindNumber

 Pop$2

 IntCmp$2 $R9 Loop Loop

 StrCpy $R9$2

 Goto Loop

 

 ExitLoop:

>FileClose $0

 MessageBox MB_OK "The highest entry is $R8" 

i'd love to use this script on the mirc.ini, which in difference to the servers.ini has various sections. the layout of mirc.ini looks like this:

[section]
n0=entry 0
n1=entry 1
n2=entry 2

[another section]
n0=entry 0
n1=entry 1
n2=entry 2
etc.

i could need a helping hand on how to modify the script above to do the following.

i need to script to do the same in a specified section, let's say determine the highest value (nX) in a section [example].

Yathosho
9th December 2002 01:26 UTC

same script, different question
  i got the working script above by adding this:

ExitLoop:

>FileClose $0

 IntOp $R8 $R9+ 1

 WriteINIStr servers.ini servers n$R8 "some entry" 

now i want to use the last line multiple times, which of course requires a different value for $R8.

 IntOp $R8 $R9 + 1

WriteINIStr servers.ini servers n$R8 "some entry"

>IntOp $R8 $R8 + 1

WriteINIStr servers.ini servers n$R8 "some entry"

>IntOp $R8 $R8 

>

did not work (which is natural i guess). but i dont know how to solve this issue. of course i could rename the string $R8 to something different, but then i'm still limited to $R0 - $R9. is there a more elegant way to solve this (a loop maybe?).

help is highly appreciated.

kichik
9th December 2002 17:01 UTC

First of all, please attach large scripts next time and don't open a new thread for a question that continues the one from another thread of yours.

Now, to get the highest number in a specified section I would take a different approach since the one presented here gets the highest number in the first section found that has an entry starting with "n".

StrCpy $0 0

Loop:

   ReadINIStr $1 "mirc.ini" "insert desired ini section name here" n$0

    IfErrors Done

    IntOp$0 $0 + 1

    Goto Loop


Done: ; $0 is now the first unused number in the INI file section 

>

To add entries then, all you need to do is call WriteIniStr and after each time you call it use IntOp $0 $0 + 1 to make sure the number you get is unique.

Yathosho
9th December 2002 23:28 UTC

does not work, always reports "0" (i used messagebox to check this)

kichik
10th December 2002 14:23 UTC

It works perfectly fine for me... Are you sure you have specified the right path to mirc.ini and the right section name?

Yathosho
10th December 2002 14:59 UTC

i tried [section] and section , both resulted the same. if you have the time, i can send you the script via icq, you got my uin ;)

Yathosho
11th December 2002 13:21 UTC

is it possible to additionally use a duplicate-filter?

n0=Leningrad
n1=Paris
n2=Madrid

at this point it wouldnt be necessary to add n3=Leningrad, since it exists already. any chance to avoid duplicates in that script?

kichik
11th December 2002 15:22 UTC

You can compare the value you want to add with each n# and if it's already there just not add it.

Yathosho
11th December 2002 21:24 UTC

hm, but what about the prefix "nX=" ?

kichik
12th December 2002 15:24 UTC

ReadINIStr reads the value. The value doesn't include the nX=.