Alternative to iniread

[Vh_]

Hello,

I've got a script that gets an index from a website, and then utilizes a .ini file to convert that number 1-50 into a US state code. I'd like to put it into the script to avoid an external file, however it seems a little tedious to do 50 If statements..such as this:

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If (Number = 1)
    State = AK
If (Number = 2)
   State = AZ
If (Number = 3)
   State = AR
If (Number = 4)
.......

Seems like this is not an efficient way to do this. Any ideas on an alternative?

Thanks,
Vh_

[gregster]

How about an associative array?

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states := {1: "AK", 2: "AZ", 3: "AR", 4 : "XY" }

i := 3
msgbox % states[i]	; state with index 3

;enumerate all states
for nr, state in states
	msgbox % nr " : "  state

Normal array would work, too, in this case (then, you'd have an implicit index).

[Qriist]

dang, just came in to say that.

For readability you can do

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states := {1: "AK"
	, 2: "AZ"
	, 3: "AR"
	, 4 : "XY" }

[jeeswg]

Here are two ways. Cheers.

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oArray := ["AK", "AZ", "AR"]
vNum := 3
MsgBox, % oArray[vNum]

oArray := StrSplit("AK,AZ,AR", ",")
vNum := 3
MsgBox, % oArray[vNum]

[Vh_]

Thanks all for the responses! I'll give this a test tomorrow and let you know how it turns out.

[evilC]

If you want to load this array from a settings file, you probably don't want to use INIRead / INIWrite.
I would use Json
Then you can just store the array verbatim in the JSON file.