INIreader

INIreader

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Description : This is a VBS script that will look for a item in a INI file. Comes in handy when you need to read INI files created by other applications. It's Read-only, no writing to INI files done here.

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Option Explicit
Const ForReading = 1
Dim TheString 'The String we are looking For
Dim g_ShellObj 'Object used For sending text To a message box
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'change INI File here
Const Filespec="\SERVERC$FILENAME.INI"
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Set g_ShellObj = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
'Starting Main function
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'Proper use is: ReadFromINI(INI file, Item in brackets, Item we are looking for)
TheString=ReadFromINI(Filespec,"PutBracketItemHere","PutItemBeingLookedForHere")
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'This shows what has been found
WScript.Echo Now() & " --> Ended **" & TheString & "**"
function ReadFromINI(INIfile,BracketItem,TheItem)
Dim fsoIN, Fin 'Objects For Reading.
Dim FoundBracket, FoundTheItem 'Keeps tracks of what we have found so far.
Dim CurrStr 'Last String that was read from the INI file.
Dim I 'Integer used For stepping through CurrStr.
Dim StringFound 'String we are looking for.
Dim C 'Current character While stepping through CurrStr
'Initialize variables
FoundBracket=False
FoundTheItem=False
CurrSTr=""
StringFound=""
'Create an object and open file For reading.
Set fsoIN = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set Fin = FsoIN.OpenTextFile(INIfile, ForReading)
'Stepping through file line by line To find what we are looking for.
Do While Fin.AtEndOfStream <> True
CurrStr=Fin.readline
if left(CurrStr,1)="[" Then 'Looking For an item in brackets
if ucase(mid(CurrSTr,2,len(BracketItem)))=ucase(BracketItem) Then
FoundBracket=True
Else
FoundBracket=False
End if
Else
'Once we are within the right section we start searching For
'the correct item we are looking for.
if FoundBracket Then
'Compare Each item To the item we are looking for.
if ucase(left(CurrSTr,len(TheItem)))=ucase(TheItem) Then
'We found the item! We must find where the equal sign
'is so we don't include it in our result.
I = len(TheItem)+1
Do While I<len(CurrStr)
C = MID(CurrStr,I,1)
if C<>" " And C<>"=" Then
'This is Not the right item but similar name.
'example: We're looking For "TheGreatThing" While
'we found "TheGreatThingy". (Notice the "y")
i=Len(CurrStr)+10
Else
if C="=" Then
'We found the equal sign, we can now create our
'String!
StringFound=Right(CurrStr,Len(CurrStr)-I)
I=Len(CurrStr)
FoundTheItem=True
Else
'Just a space, we got To keep stepping through
'the String until we find that equal sign.
I=I+1
End if
End if
Loop
End if
End if
End if
Loop
'Close the file and clear the object.
Fin.close
Set fsoIN=Nothing
'Can't forget To Set the function's variable
ReadFromINI=TRIM(StringFound)
End function
'Have a nice day!