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Best way to edit .ini file - 8/3/2006 4:52:26 AM

techspaces

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Hey everybody,
I have a question about the best way to edit an ini file. It's basically a find and replace operation. Here's the jist:

I'm running an app on a server that requires a unique ini file for each machine that access it. (This is for a logging function in the app). The only two unique lines in the ini file are:

LOGIN_ID: "ComputerName"
MACHINE_ID: "Last two characters of ComputerName"

These are the basic steps that need to happen at login:
1. Check for c:\%COMPUTERNAME% directory
2. If not present, create it
3. Check for c:\%COMPUTERNAME%\server.ini
4. If not present copy from c:\Application\server.ini to c:\%COMPUTERNAME%\
5. Then make find/replace changes

I know how to do some of this with obj.File, but I suspect there might be better ways to accomplish this. And I'm not exactly sure how to incorporate the %COMPUTERNAME% variable. Anybody got a good idea?

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RE: Best way to edit .ini file - 8/3/2006 5:31:10 AM

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One other thing I forgot to mention. This script will be running on Thin Clients using Citrix Program Neighborhood.

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RE: Best way to edit .ini file - 8/3/2006 5:32:06 AM

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This will give you the Computer Name of the machine the script is ran from:


Set oFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oNet = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
   strComputer = oNet.ComputerName
   If Not oFS.FileExists("C:\" & strComputer)Then
       oFS.CreateFolder "C:\" & strComputer
   End If

That should get you started.

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RE: Best way to edit .ini file - 8/3/2006 6:20:00 AM

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How does this look so far?

< Message edited by techspaces -- 8/3/2006 6:32:54 AM >

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RE: Best way to edit .ini file - 8/3/2006 6:26:17 AM

ebgreen

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Doing this:

strNewText = strComputer

before this:

strComputer = oNet.ComputerName

won't work.

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RE: Best way to edit .ini file - 8/3/2006 6:33:27 AM

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Thx, fixed that error. Anything else look wrong?

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RE: Best way to edit .ini file - 8/3/2006 7:26:56 AM

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I don't see any other obvious gotchas.

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