I have quite long config file and I need to extract specific strings from the file.
What I want to extract/read is InstallDir for specific number position e.g. for 20540.
I know how to find string in INI or XML, but cannot handle this form of file.
Piece of the file that shows structure:
"212280"
{
"InstallDir" "D:\\XYZ\\stu\\opr"
"UpdateKBtoDL" "0"
"HasAllLocalContent" "1"
"UpToDate" "1"
"DisableAutoUpdate" "0"
}
"20540"
{
"UpdateKBtoDL" "0"
"InstallDir" "C:\\ABC\\def\\ghi"
"HasAllLocalContent" "1"
"UpToDate" "1"
"maintenance_time" "1339663134"
"DisableAutoUpdate" "0"
}
"4560"
{
"UpdateKBtoDL" "0"
"HasAllLocalContent" "0"
"UpToDate" "0"
"InstallDir" ""
}
You'll need to write your own parser. This might be one possible implementation:
[Code]
function GetInstallDir(const FileName, Section: string): string;
var
S: string;
DirLine: Integer;
LineCount: Integer;
SectionLine: Integer;
Lines: TArrayOfString;
begin
Result := '';
S := '"' + Section + '"'; // AddQuotes is broken somehow...
if LoadStringsFromFile(FileName, Lines) then
begin
LineCount := GetArrayLength(Lines);
for SectionLine := 0 to LineCount - 1 do
if Trim(Lines[SectionLine]) = S then
begin
if (SectionLine < LineCount) and (Trim(Lines[SectionLine + 1]) = '{') then
for DirLine := SectionLine to LineCount - 1 do
begin
if (Pos('"InstallDir"', Lines[DirLine]) > 0) and
(StringChangeEx(Lines[DirLine], '"InstallDir"', '', True) > 0) then
begin
S := RemoveQuotes(Trim(Lines[DirLine]));
StringChangeEx(S, '\\', '\', True);
Result := S;
Exit;
end;
if Trim(Lines[DirLine]) = '}' then
Exit;
end;
Exit;
end;
end;
end;
procedure InitializeWizard;
begin
MsgBox(GetInstallDir('d:\File.almostjson', '20540'), mbInformation, MB_OK);
end;