While working on my soon to be released snippet, I saw the need to be able to reference topics and/or items by wildmatch... so without further ado, I present you $wini! :_)

It's kind of like $ini, although slightly different.

see code for usage, example follows here.

say we have the following ini file (C:\things.ini):

[animals]
cat=meow
dog=woof
cow=moo

$wini(C:\animals.ini, animals, *o*)

returns '2'

$wini(C:\animals.ini, animals, *o*, 1)

returns 'dog'

I hope that's clear enough, feel free to ask for clarification ;_)

;; takes the following input:
;; $1 = ini file
;; $2 = catagory
;; $3 = item
;; $4 = Nth match to return. if item isn't specified, this becomes $3. for this reason
;;      you most likely cannot match on numbers :(

alias wini {
    var %file $1
    var %cat $2
    if ($3 != $null) {
        if ($3 !isnum) {
            echo -s no number given: $3
            var %item $3
            if ($4 != $null) {
                echo -s number given: $4
                var %return $4
            }
        }
        else {
            echo -s number given: $3
            var %return $3
        }
    }
    echo -s input is: $1-
    var %count 1
    var %total $iif(%item == $null, $ini(%file, 0), $ini(%file, %cat, 0))
    echo -a total: %total
    while (%count <= %total) {
        var %current $iif(%item == $null, $ini(%file, %count), $ini(%file, %cat, %count))
        echo -a current: %current
        if ($iif(%item == $null, %cat, %item) iswm %current) {
            echo -a wildmatch!
            var %result $addtok(%result, %current, 32)
        }
        inc %count
    }
    if (%return != $null) {
        return $gettok(%result, %return, 32)
    }
    else {
        return $numtok(%result, 32)
    }
}