Is it possible to have a wildcard on writeini and readini? I want to incorporate a rank system without having to make a separate file, however I also don't want to look up the rank system every time I need to change the points.

For example,


So the * is the rank of the individual and the %points would be their points.

No, there is no /inc or /dec functionality working with files.

You must keep these values available in variables or hash tables which do have /inc and /hinc commands respectively; these can then be written to file.

But I don't want to use /inc or /dec. Instead what I want to do is retrieve the value from the file... using readini and then calculate additions or subtractions using writeini.

The file would be written as

file_name

[Username]
Rank = Points

so I would retrieve the points using the readini command but I'm wondering if I can use a wildcard to skip reading the rank.

So to retrieve the points above I would use

$readini file_name username * points

* being the wildcard value in this example.

Wildcard makes no sense in this context. If you need the rank, you need to read it or have it stored in a variable to avoid the read.

If you have two entities, a "rank" and "points" then the correct way to store this is not "rank = points".

If rank is determined solely by points there's no reason to read it back when updating rank anyway.

Rank is a variable so points do not determine the variable. So I'm assuming I would have to use $ini to retrieve the rank and then use that in order to read the file. Then use that same variable to edit the points using writeini. I kinda figured that it wouldn't work I was just making sure.

is this what you mean?