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Hello, I am wondering if its possible to get Arrays with the cIniFile class?
I Know INI files can have arrays but looking at the docs, there is no functions for arrays.

Is there a different way to get arrays from INI files?

What do you want to save in the INI Array?
Why not use a SQLLite database?

Its for a config, I need to save a motd message, and the motd needs to be multiple lines.

You could use several approaches here:
- Store the strings in a single value in an INI file, separated by a separator: "value1|value2|value3", then use StringSplitAndTrim() on the string value you read from the INI file
- Use a config file that is a Lua file. Such a config file must not be stored in the plugin's folder, but then is quite free to use any Lua to provide the configuration; then use Lua's dofile() function to read the config. The only downside is that it's difficult-to-impossible to make changes to such a file programmatically. Gallery plugin uses a Lua config file, you can use that as a reference.

I was thinking of using a seperator, only problem is that for a motd, the line would be really bad to read.
I was playing around with the lxp but I never figured out a good way to make it parse the XML file to a Table so that didn't work either.

Is there a reason why the cIniFile class doesn't have a function for arrays/tables?

The server has never needed to use it, I suppose.

Is there any plans to add support for it?
Could be useful for message configs and similiar?

Hey,

Does this fit to you?
With GetNumValues() from cIniFile you can get the amount of values from a key, then you can foor loop over it. I use this nice idea in my skyblock plugin for the challenenges.

Messages.ini

TestPlugin.lua

PLUGIN = nil

function Initialize(Plugin)
    Plugin:SetName("TestPlugin")
    Plugin:SetVersion(1)

    PLUGIN = Plugin
   
    local MessagesIni = cIniFile()
    MessagesIni:ReadFile(PLUGIN:GetLocalDirectory() .. "/Messages.ini")
    
    local amountMOTD = MessagesIni:GetNumValues("motd")
    for i = 1, amountMOTD do
        LOG(MessagesIni:GetValue("motd", i))
        local motd = MessagesIni:GetValue("motd", i)
        local amountLines = MessagesIni:GetNumValues(motd)
        for line = 1, amountLines do
            LOG(MessagesIni:GetValue(motd, line))
        end
        LOG("")
    end
end

regards,
Seadragon91

Edit: Renamed l to line

Could work for the project I am working on, but would be nicer to have a real function for it.
In case you have a lot of lines and you have to change multiple lines, you might forget to edit the number, then the for loop will fail.

Seadragon91: just a small note, it's a bad idea to use "l" as the name for a variable, because of its visual similarity with "1". Those of us with a bit worse eyes will thank you for not doing it