globalsFromIni() Version 1.0
By reading an Ini file with the standard commands of AutoHotkey, the file would be reopened and closed after process on every single key. This could impact the performance of the script, if a large number of keys are to read, like in a loop command.
So its better to read the Ini file one time into an AutoHotkey variable and parse it with some string commands. This is super fast, in comparison to reading the contents of all keys with standard IniRead command.
In the forum, there are some solutions already. They may better, I don´t know. Here is my solution. It creates from an Ini file automatically global variables.
Example
Usage is very easy:
Code:
globalsFromIni("test.ini")
would create from an INI file with this content:
Quote:
[Search_In_Items]
1=All Documents
2=All Inbound
3=All Meters
[Search_In_Restrictions]
1=Library\
2=Library\Inbound\
3=Library\Meters\
these global variables:
- Search_In_Items_1 = All Documents
- Search_In_Items_2 = All Inbound
- Search_In_Items_3 = All Meters
- Search_In_Restrictions_1 = Library\
- Search_In_Restrictions_2 = Library\Inbound\
- Search_In_Restrictions_3 = Library\Meters\
Source:The function´s first parameter is the file path to the ini file to read. The second parameter is optional and should be better leaved by default "_"-character. This specifies the separator between section name and key name. All section names and key names are merged into single name.
Code:
; Creates global variables from an Ini file.
globalsFromIni(_SourcePath, _VarPrefixDelim = "_")
{
; Public Domain 2008 Tuncay
Global
Local FileContent, CurrentPrefix, CurrentVarName, CurrentVarContent, DelimPos
FileRead, FileContent, %_SourcePath%
If ErrorLevel = 0
{
Loop, Parse, FileContent, `n, `r%A_Tab%%A_Space%
{
If A_LoopField Is Not Space
{
If (SubStr(A_LoopField, 1, 1) = "[")
{
StringTrimLeft, CurrentPrefix, A_LoopField, 1
StringTrimRight, CurrentPrefix, CurrentPrefix, 1
}
Else
{
DelimPos := InStr(A_LoopField, "=")
StringLeft, CurrentVarName, A_LoopField, % DelimPos - 1
StringTrimLeft, CurrentVarContent, A_LoopField, %DelimPos%
CurrentVarName = %CurrentVarName%
%CurrentPrefix%%_VarPrefixDelim%%CurrentVarName% = %CurrentVarContent%
}
}
}
}
}
Like I said already, there are some already existing functions which does the same. But I could not find them again. Its public domain, do whatever you want with it.
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