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Hi all,

I have a .ini file in the following format:


Those entries are not fixed, so I dont know the sections names and I do not know if or what keys go with each of the existing section. That being said I want to get the following two functions.

First, I'd like to read the existing sections from the given file with something like:
which will return something (a String) like Found sections: Alpha Beta Gamma

Once I know the sections, the second and last step is to get the entries by something like which should return the following two lines:


Unfortunately my knowledge about the mirc coding syntax is terrible, so any solution is welcome.
Thanks in advance!

You can loop through ini files using $ini combined with $readini to get proper values.
Use the help files to know how to use them
example:
Not sure if that's exactly what you're looking for. But I guess you'll figure it out from reference. There's also support for wildcards using $ini

This looks like something I could start on with... it will probably solve the /getentry value thing.
But still I dont know what sections are available. In your code snippet section is fixed.

How can I get the available sections from a given file. That would be what I meant with /getsection command above.

If you read the help files of $ini, you could see that you can simply use to return the full number of sections in that inifile.
Example:
You can then loop through the sections items the same way by using $ini(file.ini,%section,0) etc

Ok, that looks like it could work. I gonna try it later. I'll be back if I should fail

Thank you Nillen