dbach
21st July 2008 17:02 UTC

ReWriting INI files (the hard way?) :-(
  Hi together.

I am currently writing an upgrade installation for one of our products.
In the old ini file I have some sectionnames that have to move to a new ini file - but as values!

Example:

; Old.ini

>***91;AETITLE:MachineName***93;

>a=b

x=y


>***91;AETITLE:AnotherMachineName***93;

>l=m

n=o 

>

I need the Name of the Section without AETITLE. The result should look like this:

ini

>***91;network***93;

>MachineName=one-setting,more-settings,yadada

AnotherMachineName=one-setting,more-settings,yadada 

>

I do not need the values/keys from the old.ini sections but part of the sectionname as value for the new.ini.

Any ideas how to handle this? :|

Thank you very much.

Yathosho
21st July 2008 19:10 UTC

ConfigRead should be of help

dbach
21st July 2008 19:52 UTC

thanks for your reply.

my problem is that i don't know the section names yet. they all start with [AETITLE:something], so I will need a loop. but I didn't program a loop so far. Any hints about looping trough my problem? or can anyone point me to a good example with loops which also I can unterstand? ;)

thnx

Yathosho
21st July 2008 20:56 UTC

try this

 ClearErrors


Loop:

 ${ConfigRead} "old.ini" "***91;AETITLE" $var ; sets errorflag if not found

 IfErrors EndLoop

 StrCpy $var $var-1 ; deletes the "***93;"

>WriteIniStr "new.ini" "network" $var "what you want to add"

>DeleteINISec "old.ini" "***91;AETITLE$var***93;"

 Goto Loop

EndLoop: 

the DeleteIniSec part is probably undesired and clumsy, but you get the idea with the loop

dbach
22nd July 2008 11:29 UTC

Originally posted by Yathosho
try this

 ClearErrors


Loop:

 ${ConfigRead} "old.ini" "***91;AETITLE" $var ; sets errorflag if not found

 IfErrors EndLoop

 StrCpy $var $var-1 ; deletes the "***93;"

>WriteIniStr "new.ini" "network" $var "what you want to add"

>DeleteINISec "old.ini" "***91;AETITLE$var***93;"

 Goto Loop

EndLoop: 

the DeleteIniSec part is probably undesired and clumsy, but you get the idea with the loop

thank you very very much! thats exactly what I need.