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[biatche]

Say I have a textfile

abc.txt
which reads

[sinkfaze]

I'd say you might want to try looking at FileRead, IfInString and StringReplace.

[biatche]

[biatche]

anyone got ideas? am i on the right track?

[Zed Gecko]

I am not shure what your final goal is,
but your last sample of a textfile looks very similar to an inifile.
for example:

[biatche]

then would you know how i can get them into a variable in the case is like this

[section i want]
??random??key=the cat is black ; ??random??line



??random??key=the cat is black ; ??random??line

[Z Gecko]

I am not shure what you exactly mean,
something like this?

[biatche]

ok, put it this way, what if the searchterm is like

the ??? is ???

the problem is, you don't know what's ???.. could be a dragon for all you know

this is the difficult part for me which is why i chose filereadline method

[Z Gecko]

oh, i see now
but this is actually not depending on the way you store the strings,
the method is always the same,
on some point you will loop through the data and do a comparison.
Simple comparisons like If and IfInString will not work well in your case.
I suggest to use regular expressions for that.
RegExMatch is kind of the big-brother of IfInString,
and RegExReplace can be used to change strings.

But unfortunately if have no further experience with regex, so someone else will have to jump in from this point .

You could maybe ask here for help: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic13545.html