Stupid AutoIt problem with variables

[Martin Zugec]

Hello there! Its long time since I used AutoIt last time, however now I needed to and encountered one problem.

$strTest = IniReadSection ("usmt.ini","Servers")
If @error Then 
    MsgBox(4096, "", "Error")
Else
    For $i = 1 To $strTest[0][0]
   	 $strTest[$i][0] = $strTest[$i][1]
    Next
EndIf

What should it do? Read Servers section from USMT.ini and create variables. Like Key=Value. However it is not working I am quite tired today, so I probably just missed something

[MHz]

IniReadSection reads the whole section into an array.

$strTest[0][0] is the number of keys in your array.

To access the information, you use a For Next loop, as you display.

$strTest[$i][0] outputs the key name, in the loop.

$strTest[$i][1] outputs the value, in the loop.

But you are using the equals sign, to make a direct compare of key to value.

Sample test.ini

[section]
key1=value1
key2=value2
key3=value3

Sample code

$var = IniReadSection("test.ini", "section")
If @error Then
    MsgBox(4096, "", "Error occured, probably no INI file.")
Else
    For $i = 1 To $var[0][0]
        MsgBox(0, 'Key', $var[$i][0])
        MsgBox(0, 'Value', $var[$i][1])
    Next
EndIf
MsgBox(0, 'Count', $var[0][0] & ' keys read')

This should show in msgboxes sequence:

key1
value1
key2
value2
key3
value3
3 keys read

This makes for very quick retrieval of reading ini files. And accessing the arrays, to quickly process the information. Now how you want to use this 2 dimension array, is up to you.

Here is a snippet of code, of processing the information, for a treeviewitem.

$file  = @ScriptDir & "\tree2.ini"
$group = IniReadSection($file, "TLR")
   
If @error Then 
  MsgBox(4096, "", "Error occured, probably no INI file.")
Else
  For $a = 1 To $group[0][0]
     $group[$a][0] = GUICtrlCreateTreeViewitem (StringTrimLeft($group[$a][1], 6), $treeview)
     $sub = IniReadSection($file, $group[$a][1])
     For $h = 1 To $sub[0][0]
        $sub[$a][0] = GUICtrlCreateTreeViewitem (StringTrimLeft($sub[$h][1], 6), $group[$a][0])
     Next
  Next
EndIf

Edited July 13, 2005 by MHz