using writeini (space in section) - mIRC Discussion Forums

right im using write ini
basicly
i tried in brackets and $+

writeini list.ini access $+ $chr(32) $+ list $$2 $$3
and
writeini list.ini (access list) $$2 $$3

I think you have to enclose it in quotes " "

example: writeini list.ini "access list" $$2 $$3

I had this problem. I got around it by renaming the space character tokenised list to one tokenised with underscores:

Code:

var %j = 1
set %desc $null
while ( %j &lt;= $gettok($did($dname,2),0,32) ) {
  set %desc $addtok( %desc,$gettok($did($dname,2), %j, 32), 95 )
  inc %j
}

where the name of the ini file section is read from that dialog call and stored tokenised with underscores in %desc for use later in writing to the inifile.
To read it back from the ini file I used

Code:

var %j = 1
set %desc $null
while ( %j &lt;= $gettok( $ini(%inifile, %i), 0, 95) ) {
  set %desc $addtok( %desc,$gettok($ini(%inifile, %i), %j, 95), 32 )
  inc %j
}

Here %desc, is the section title read back from the ini and retokenised using spaces. The path to the ini is %inifile

Edit: That post appeared whilst I was writing this, please tell me if the quotes work and I wasted a lot of time

Rather than using the codes that you wrote up, you could've used

Code:

 set %desc $replace($did($dname,2),$chr(32),$chr(95))

and likewise to reverse it...I couldn't make a modification of your second code since you use %i in the code, but %i isn't set or evaluated in the code.

Thats such a simpler way of doing it. Why didn't I think of that. %i is set somewhere else, but yes the second code could be altered in a similar manner without much bother.

Not to worry I'm probably going to recode the whole thing to use hash tables shortly anyway.

when you recode for hash tables, rather than losing the information in your ini files, or having to redo it all again, remember the -i switch in /hload & /hsave

Quote:

when you recode for hash tables, rather than losing the information in your ini files, or having to redo it all again, remember the -i switch in /hload & /hsave

Yup, well, as mentioned in my thread about ini's and hash tables, they're not quite importing right.