Yes, this is the fastest. I wrote a function that uses offset() rather extensively.
They both work well, but this one here is about 36% faster. It's also more intuitive
than mine.
(Note that the line "put 1 into state" below should read "put True into groupFound")
Also thanks to Dave Cragg as well as Phil Davis for your suggestions. I learned
something from each of your approaches that I didn't know before.
Thanks!
--Leston
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From: Ruediger zu Dohna ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: Re: parsing a INI formatted file
Hi!
I have not tried it, but propably something like the following is the fastest:
function getIniValue theFile,theGroup,theKey
put false into groupFound
repeat for each line aLine in url ("file:"&theFile)
if not groupFound then
if aLine is "["&theGroup&"]" then
put 1 into state
end if
else
-- use token here, so whitespace can be ignored.
if token 1 of aLine is theKey and token 2 of aLine is "=" then
return token 3 to -1 of aLine
end if
if char 1 of aLine is "[" then -- another group!!!
exit repeat
end if
end if
end repeat
return empty
end getIniValue
Regards
R�diger
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