Subj : helpfile.js
To   : Digital Man
From : MCMLXXIX
Date : Thu Sep 17 2009 02:42 pm

  Re: helpfile.js
  By: MCMLXXIX to Digital Man on Thu Sep 17 2009 13:35:49

 >  > I was hoping to use the ini methods as delimiters for help file sections
 >  > for quick and easy navigation within a file by reading or setting a
 >  > value within a section to change file position.... but I don't know if
 >  > it will work.
 >
 > the only way I can think of right now is to append an "=" to the end of
 > every line of text in a section and read everything in as a key, but I'd
 > rather not have to.
 >

after bouncing this issue off of myself for a while I got something to work,
and it seems pretty solid.

calling File.iniGetValue("section",null); sets the file position to the
character immediately after the NEXT section heading. so with an empty section
at the beginning and end of the file I can get the file position for the start
of each section of text (and consequently the end of each section by
readln()-ing up until the position is greater than that of the next section and
dumping the last line)

sexy.. unless you know of a better way


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