Windows batch script to read an .ini file

Question

I'm trying to read an .ini file with the following format:

[SectionName] total=4 [AnotherSectionName] total=7 [OtherSectionName] total=12 

Basically I want to print out certain values from the .ini file, for example the total under OtherSectionName followed by the total from AnotherSectionName.

Answer 1

Here's a command file (ini.cmd) you can use to extract the relevant values:

@setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion @echo off set file=%~1 set area=[%~2] set key=%~3 set currarea= for /f "usebackq delims=" %%a in ("!file!") do (     set ln=%%a     if "x!ln:~0,1!"=="x[" (         set currarea=!ln!     ) else (         for /f "tokens=1,2 delims==" %%b in ("!ln!") do (             set currkey=%%b             set currval=%%c             if "x!area!"=="x!currarea!" if "x!key!"=="x!currkey!" (                 echo !currval!             )         )     ) ) endlocal 

And here's a transcript showing it in action (I've manually indented the output to make it easier to read):

c:\src>type ini.ini     [SectionName]     total=4     [AnotherSectionName]     total=7     [OtherSectionName]     total=12 c:\src>ini.cmd ini.ini SectionName total     4 c:\src>ini.cmd ini.ini AnotherSectionName total     7 c:\src>ini.cmd ini.ini OtherSectionName total     12 

To actually use this in another cmd file, just replace the echo %val% line below with whatever you want to do with it):

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('call ini.cmd ini.ini AnotherSectionName total') do (     set val=%%a ) echo %val%