create ini file from associative array Topic is solved

[gerard]

Hello, greetings to all.
When I run the following code, the ini file is created correctly, however the data is not in the same order in which it is in the array. Is there any way to fix this?

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hks := {"^+q": "exit"
	,"^right": "next"
	,"^left": "previous"
	,"^enter": "select"}

for k, v in hks
	iniWrite, %k%, config.ini, %v%, hk

resulting file:

[exit]
hk=^+q
[select]
hk=^enter
[previous]
hk=^left
[next]
hk=^right

I don't know if I'm missing something ...

[Smile_]

Use simple array:

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hks := [["^+q","exit"]
	   ,["^right","next"]
	   ,["^left","previous"]
	   ,["^enter","select"]]

for k, v in hks
	iniWrite, % v[1], config.ini, % v[2], hk

[boiler]

however the data is not in the same order in which it is in the array.
...
I don't know if I'm missing something ...

That is not the order in which it is in the array. That is just the order you assigned them. The order you assign key/value pairs is not necessarily the order they will be retrieved. They are sorted on the keys, which is how they ended up: ^+,q, ^enter, ^left, ^right, with the character after the ^ being the consequential character: +, e, l, r. That's why Smile_'s approach of using a simple array keeps them in your desired order...because the keys are integers 1, 2, 3, 4, with each value being another (two-item) simple array.

[gerard]

Thanks for the reply. She had tried something more or less similar, but, but less verbose.
I think I will stick with the option you have proposed

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hks := ["^+q,Exit"
	   ,"^right,Next"
	   ,"^left,Previous"
	   ,"^enter,Select"]

for k, value in hks
    {
    data := strSplit(value, ",")
    iniWrite,% data[1], config.ini,% data[2], hk
    }

The data in the array will be written by people who do not know programming, so I was looking for something fairly intuitive to write.
Greetings