Editing A Malformed INI File

[CyberCitizen]

Hey Guys,

Not sure if anyone else uses SABNZBD, however I am having an issue reading the main configuration file.

I am wanting to read the file & check a field to see if it matches what I have as a VAR.

The issue is the INI file may be malformed and not being detected by MS correctly.

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[[free.hitnews.com]]
username = USERNAME
enable = 1
name = free.hitnews.com
fillserver = 1
connections = 30
ssl = 1
host = free.hitnews.com
timeout = 120
password = PASSWORD
optional = 0
port = 563
retention = 850

Above is the INI file notice the double [[ brackets as well as the space before and after the =.

I have tried a few things but my MS returns a blank field. Please help.

[Marcus Tettmar]

It's not a valid INI file format so the built in INI file functions won't work with it. I guess you could use ReadFile and then RegEx instead.

[CyberCitizen]

What makes it invalid. I suspect that was the case, I don't understand why I can't call the additional characters.

eg

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ReadIniFile>FilePATH,[free.hitnews.com],username ,Result

Shouldn't that work?

[Marcus Tettmar]

ReadIniFile calls this Windows API function:

GetPrivateProfileString

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... s.85).aspx

So I can't look at the source and tell you technically why it fails to find the section name/entry in your INI file example. But we can probably guess: it just doesn't match the format/pattern that GetPrivateProfileString looks for.

Sorry if this answer isn't good enough. Someone at Microsoft might have a better explanation. But it's academic really. It just doesn't work in this case, so use an alternative.

[CyberCitizen]

I have had a look at RegEx, although I am stumped at how I can look for the text inbetween the 2x tags and replace it as that text will change.

What I am after is a way of monitoring what is inbetween those logon tags and if it changes the script I have pulls the latest logon info from the site & updates it.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Which part do you want to read out and modify?

[CyberCitizen]

Which part do you want to read out and modify?

Hi Marcus,

The text fields in capitals (USERNAME & PASSWORD).

I have a script that already monitors a site for changes, however I need to have it check against those fields and if its different write the new username to that ini file.

[PepsiHog]

@CyberCitizen

The great thing about ini files is that the program will only pay attention to the information it is looking for. So we can take advantage of this and add our own Sections to the ini file.

What we want is to copy the Sections we want information from and then re-write the Section(s) with the format we need. This macro just reads the entire ini for all Sections. Replaces [[ with [ and ]] with ]. Then it adds the newly formed sections to the ini. You can now retreive your data.

To make it easier, you could write the new Sections into your own ini. Once you have the info needed, just delete the new ini file.

BTW - The spacing between the equal sign(=) does not matter.

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let>FPath=%Desktop_Dir%

ExportData>TEST.INI_DATA,%FPath%\Test.ini

GoSub>AddValid

mdl>The password is : %strValue%

srt>AddValid
ReadFile>%FPath%\test.ini,File
StringReplace>File,[[,[,File
StringReplace>File,]],],File
// add some empty lines for spacing between lines in file.
let>File=%crlf%%crlf%%crlf%%crlf%%File%
// add your valid entries to ini.
writeln>%FPath%\test.ini,wtf,%File%
// read new entry
ReadIniFile>%FPath%\test.ini,free.hitnews.com,password,strValue
END>AddValid


/*
TEST.INI_DATA:
5B5B667265652E6869746E6577732E636F6D5D5D0D0A70617373776F7264203D206E65775F70617373776F72640D0A0D0A0D0A0D0A5B5B4F746865722E696E76616C6964735D5D0D0A7768617465766572203D206F746865725F64617461
*/

Hope this is useful.
PepsiHog

[CyberCitizen]

Thanks PepsiHog,

That is exactly what I need. That allows me to make the changes & replace the file if it changes. Thank you so much, can't believe I didn't think of the good old string replace.