colouring lines in a text file in an edit box. 1

[coldan]

In my app I write an ini file with a [Filter] section and I have a View Ini form already setup.

At one point in the program I want to offer the user a chance to view the ini file BUT with only a specific section of the entries shown.

Can I

1 Colour the specific entries ( lines) somehow? or

2 Extract just the [Filter] section entries to a new file somehow?

Thanks

Coldan

 

[Mike Lewis]

The second option would be much easier.

One way to extract the desired entries would be to use STREXTRACT(). For example:

; Contents of INI file
[first]
x = y
p = q
[filter]
a = 1
b = 2
[last]
....

------------------------

* Code to extract [filter] section
lcINI = FILETOSTR("MyFile.INI")
lcFilter = STREXTRACT(lcIni, "[filter]", "[")

* Then go ahead and display the contents 
* of lcFilter

Mike

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[coldan]

Thanks Mike,

Saved me some 20 lines of code I had tried with fopen() <sigh>


Coldan