[RELEASE] OpenSource INI Format Read/Write Class

[Ceka]

I'd like to share a small project i worked yesterday on, Hopefully it will be used.
I'll explain the basic functionality here.

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<<==Setup for using a INI Formated File ==>>

// Where the other usings are.
using iniControll;

// Creating a new instance of the INI Class
INI myIni = new INI("location to file here"); // Warning: Exceptions are not handled so, you're gonna have to check for your self.

<<==Using INI.ReadKey==>>

Let's say this is the file we have. And we want to read from 'key2'

key1 = hello
key2 = there
keyseven = whatever

// Use the code from the previous tutorial to already create an instance of the INI class
myIni.ReadKey("key2");
//Example of using the output :
//Console.WriteLine(myIni.ReadKey("key2"));

<<==Using INI.WriteKey==>>

Notes: Read the INI.ReadKey part of this Thread, or else you won't know where some things came from ^^

// Now, WriteKey will Replace a existing key if it already exists. Lets say we want to: Create a new key: key6 and change keyseven's value
myIni.WriteKey("keyseven","its7");
myIni.WriteKey("key6"."its6");

Have fun using this! ^^

Just make a new Project and add a class, Remove all of its default inerts and copy + paste this in; Then Compile it and Use it in your projects ^^!

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace iniControll
{
    public class INI
    {
        static string file;
        static string line;
        System.IO.StreamReader filez;

        public INI(string _file)
        {
            filez =  new System.IO.StreamReader(_file);
            filez.Close();
            file = _file;
        }
        public string ReadKey(string key)
        {
            filez = new System.IO.StreamReader(file);
            string result = null;
            
            while ((line = filez.ReadLine()) != null)
            {
                if (line.StartsWith(key) & (line[key.Length] == ' ' | line[key.Length] == '='))
                    {
                        int stage = 0;
                        
                        for (int i = key.Length; i<line.Length; i++)
                        {

                            if (line[i] == ' ') continue;
                            else if (line[i] == '=')  stage = 1;
                            else if (stage == 1)
                            {
                                result += line[i];
                            }
                        }
                    }
            
            }
            filez.Close();
            if (result == string.Empty) result = "";
            return result;

        }
        public void WriteKey(string key, string value)
        {
            System.IO.StreamWriter s = new System.IO.StreamWriter(file + ".wr");
            s.AutoFlush = true;


            filez = new System.IO.StreamReader(file);
            int b = 0;
            while ((line = filez.ReadLine()) != null)
            {
                if (line.StartsWith(key) & (line[key.Length] == ' ' | line[key.Length] == '='))
                {
                    s.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", key, value);
                    b = 1;
                }
                else
                {
                    s.WriteLine(line);
                }
            }
            if (b == 0)
            {
                s.WriteLine("{0} = {1}", key, value);
            }
            s.Close();
            filez.Close();
            System.IO.File.Replace(file + ".wr", file, file + ".bac");
            System.IO.File.Delete(file + ".bac");

            
        }
    }
}

 

[JohnH]

Sections is a rather important part of the ini file structure, see INI file - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Henry Minute]

I am also a newbie to this site but even I can see that this has nothing to do with Component Development. Also as JohnH has said large parts of the functionality of INI files is missing.

 

[Ceka]

Indeed, i really did not know where i should post this.
However, this is just a little test project on my way of learning C#. I never really thought it should be used for a serious project. It can tho be used for "setting" files an similar.

It's just a small useful "snippet"