AutoHotkey Community

[ranomore]

What would I have to do to read/write from an ini file where the information is not listed under a [section] heading? It still meets the KEY=Var format.

EDIT:
If it's not possible with IniRead/IniWrite, I'm sure I can do it with a file read loop. Just curious if it is.

[jonny]

IniRead can only read from correctly formatted, standard INI files. In truth, if it doesn't have any sections, it's not a true INI file.

To answer your question more directly: it requires the third parameter (section) to be non-blank.

[ranomore]

thanks jonny. I'd already gotten the erro message. It's a weird ini file. It has what i'd call a pre-amble section that has stored values in it, before the start of the normal-correctly formatted-sections. It's for M$ Visual Source Safe, so it's non-standardness is not too surprising. Why do they make Automation, Hotkeys, and Scripting so hard?

[Watcher]

You might try adding your own section header to it. It's very possible that although the program does not add one it will not complain if you do.