Text file and manipulation

Easy-to-use functions to get info about or to manipulate text files.

Functions in this category

Details

addSectionLine

Syntax: addSectionLine <FILENAME> <SECTION> <REPLACE> <MATCH>

MATCH: Text to match against in the defined section text. SECTION: Text section to modify or add text line. REPLACE: Text to be added or replaced against the matched text line. FILENAME: File to update.

Add or replace a text line to a named section of an INI-style file. Filename or section marker will be added if either is not present if NATCH is not given the REPLACE text will be added

getSection

Syntax: getSection <INIFILE> <SECTION>

SECTION: The name of a section (excluding brackets). INIFILE: The filename of a INI file.

Extracts the contents of an INI file section.

removeSectionLine

Syntax: removeSectionLine <INIFILE> <SECTION> <MATCH>

MATCH: The text to match against. SECTION: The name of a section (excluding brackets). INIFILE: The INI file to update.

Remove a text line to a named section of a INI file.

Example: # hello.ini contains: # [Foo] # hello=1 # world=2 removeSectionLine "hello.ini" "Foo" "hello=1" # Now it contains: # [Foo] # world=2

removeLine

Syntax: removeLine <FILENAME> <STRING>

FILENAME: A filename. STRING: The line to remove.

Look for lines that equals STRING in a text file and removes them.

endsWithNewLine

Syntax: endsWithNewLine <FILENAME>

FILENAME: A filename. Returns: 0 on true, 1 on false.

Finds out if the last byte in file FILENAME is a newline (\n).