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Edit INI file using VBS - 10/20/2008 6:47:22 AM   
  iamchappy

 

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Status: offline 		Hey everyone,

So I have this .ini file located at C:\GSI\Application\teleset.ini

This is what the teleset.ini file looks like:

[CTI]
teleset=

I would like to have a VBS script that will have an input box where I can enter a number and then have an OK button that will save the .ini file. So lets say I input 007 in the inputbox.  I would like the ini file then to look like this:

[CTI]
teleset=007

Is this even possible?  Any ideas would be great.  Thanks. 





 
 
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RE: Edit INI file using VBS - 10/20/2008 7:00:48 AM   
  ebgreen


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Status: offline 		This is certainly possible. You would ask the user for input. Then you have some options. One way is to just delete the existing file and write a string out to a new file (with the same name) that has the correct user supplied string. Here are some search terms to get you started:

FileSystemObject
.ReadAll
.ReadLine
InputBox
.WriteLine
.Write

Here is some pseudo-code:

strNumber = Inputbox("Enter the number")
strOut = "[CTI]" & vbCrLf & "teleset=" & strNumber
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
oFSO.DeleteFile("C:\Path\To\File\File.Name")
oFSO.CreateTextFile("C:\Path\To\File\File.Name").Write(strOut)

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RE: Edit INI file using VBS - 10/20/2008 7:18:37 AM   
  iamchappy

 

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Status: offline 		Thanks ebgreen it worked!

OK.  Now to phase two of my little project here:

Now, I have another .ini file called cticonfig.ini which is located at C:\nextel\cti\config\cticonfig.ini

That ini file looks like this:

[Nextel Cti Config]

PERIPHERALID=5143
SIDEAHOST=server1a
SIDEBHOST=server1b
SIDEAPORT=42045
SIDEBPORT=42046
HEARTBEATINTERVAL=1000
AGENTEXTENSION=

I would pretty much like to do what I did before but this time, add a number for AGENTEXTENSION= with an input box

I could do that with what you showed me but is there any way where you could have two INPUT boxes that would add the numbers to both ini files?  Even if they are two different numbers?  So let me give you an example.

The first input box would be for the first ini file (teleset.ini): "Enter Teleset ID Number here:"   And I would input 007.
The second input box would be for the second ini file (cticonfig.ini): "Enter Extension Number here:" And I would input 8630074

Could that possibly work? 

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RE: Edit INI file using VBS - 10/20/2008 7:23:03 AM   
  ebgreen


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Status: offline 		Yes it would work. You now know how to get user input and how to write a string to a file, so you should be able to come up with this on your own. I will point out however that I did the last task the way that I did because the contents of the file were small. This task is a little different in that if I were doing I would read the contents of the file into a variable then manipulate the variable to create the new text. Using the search terms that I already provided, see what you can come up with.

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RE: Edit INI file using VBS - 10/20/2008 7:59:51 AM   
  Rischip


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Canned vbscript INI file editing and reading ---> http://www.fpschultze.de/smartfaq+faq.faqid+51.htm

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RE: Edit INI file using VBS - 10/20/2008 8:44:30 AM   
  ebgreen


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Status: offline 		That works too.

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RE: Edit INI file using VBS - 10/21/2008 8:10:51 AM   
  Rischip


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Status: offline 		There is a small issue with it. They way it is coded it doesn't open unicode files. It needs to be modified to open as a text stream.

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