Search ini file

By horstefan on Jan 28, 2010

I was tired of ini files couldnt be searched and came up with an (yet incomplete) however functioning way of searching them

how it works:

it opens the ini on a textfile base ($read)
it scans the file for giving wildcard and returns the line-number
it goes to the line number and moves one line up untill it finds a line starting with "[" (a topic)
it returns that line at the end

disadvantages:
when multiple hits were found, only the first one is shown due to the limits of $read
the script is to slow to integrate in fast scripts, this is why im posting here, anyone got a better solution?

alias sini {
  ; usage: $sini(inifile, wildcard)
  if ($read($1, w, $2-)) {
    var %line $readn
    while (1) {
      dec %line
      if ($left($read($1, %line), 1) == $chr(91)) { 
        var %topic $read($1, %line)
        break
      }
    }
  }
  return $remove(%topic, $chr(91), $chr(93))
}

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horstefan - Jan 29, 2010

the actual purpose of this script is, in my case, this situation:

im creating a linked server in mIRC, who is able to check spamfilter hits and match them to a username/host
the "database" im using is looking like this:

[1]
nick=horstefan
address=stefanpc.lan
spamhits=5
chans=#home,#test,#opers
[2]
etc...

the purpose of the script is to search on: "nick=horstefan" and get the userid (1)
this is (as far as i know) not possible with mirc basic commands...

edit@ napa182:
this script is not meant for searching topics by number, its meant for searching topics by data (like address=stefanpc.lan, or nick=horstefan)

edit@Jethro_:
what exactly is your idea of mimicing... readini doesnt provide this option, so you got any suggestions on it?

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Jethro - Jan 29, 2010

I still don't get why people "mimic ini with txt" to this day.

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napa182 - Jan 28, 2010

ever read the help file?

$ini(file,topic/N,item/N)

Returns the name/Nth position of the specified topic/item in an ini/text file.

$ini(mirc.ini,0) returns total number of topics in mirc.ini

$ini(mirc.ini,1) returns name of 1st topic in mirc.ini

$ini(mirc.ini,help) returns Nth position of topic help if it exists, or returns 0 if it doesn't exist

The item/N parameter is optional. If you specify N = 0, it returns the total number of topics/items.

useing that you can make somthing to search the ini file without making it into txt.

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slub77 - Jan 28, 2010

uhh quick try:

alias fini {
var %a 1
:loop
if !$readini($1,$2) { halt }
if %b.5 { echo %b.1 | echo %b.2 | echo %b.3 | echo %b.4 | echo %b.5 }
else {
var $+(%b,.,%a) $readini($1,$2)
inc %a | goto loop
}
}

shot in the dark lol

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