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Jenn
Jenn

Reputation: 111

Using Inno Setup scripting to insert lines into a text file?

Objective is to insert multiple lines (once) at beginning of text document.

But I have been having problems with the approaches I found. I've attempted to adjust them but it incorporates side-effect issues.

Two problems:

  1. Appends end of file instead of inserting into line locations.
  2. In its present design, it appends the file 3 times.

In reference to the other scripts I found both lines incorporating Result := resulted in unknown identifier.

References:

[Code]
procedure CurStepChanged(CurStep: TSetupStep);
var
  ErrorCode: Integer;
  FileName: string;
  lines : TArrayOfString;
begin
  fileName := ExpandConstant('{userappdata}\xy');
  fileName := AddBackslash(FileName) + 'zlt.net';
  SetArrayLength(lines, 6); 
  lines[0] := 'A';
  lines[1] := 'B';
  lines[2] := 'C';
  lines[3] := 'D';
  lines[4] := 'E';
  lines[5] := 'F';
  SaveStringsToFile(filename,lines,true);
end;

Upvotes: 4

Views: 214

Answers (1)

Martin Prikryl
Martin Prikryl

Reputation: 202721

  1. There's no way to insert lines into file. You have to recreate whole file.

  2. CurStepChanged is triggered for every step of the installation. You will want to insert the lines in one of the steps only (likely ssInstall or ssPostInstall)

procedure CurStepChanged(CurStep: TSetupStep);
var
  Lines: TStringList;
begin
  if CurStep = ssPostInstall then
  begin
    Lines := TStringList.Create;
    try
      Lines.LoadFromFile(FileName);

      Lines.Insert(0, 'A');
      Lines.Insert(1, 'B');
      Lines.Insert(2, 'C');
      Lines.Insert(3, 'D');
      Lines.Insert(4, 'E');
      Lines.Insert(5, 'F');

      Lines.SaveToFile(FileName);
    finally
      Lines.Free;
    end;
  end;
end;

The code loads whole file to memory. That can be a problem if the file is too large. But that should not be a problem for files smaller than tens of MBs. Also repeatedly calling Insert is not efficient. But for small files and few lines, this should not be a problem either.

Upvotes: 4

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