OpenTOFLidar

//taken from https://bytes.com/topic/net/insights/797169-reading-parsing-ini-file-c

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections;
using System.Windows.Forms;


namespace LidarScanningTest1
{
 public class IniParser
 {
     private Hashtable keyPairs = new Hashtable();
     private String iniFilePath;
 
     private struct SectionPair
     {
         public String Section;
         public String Key;
     }
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Opens the INI file at the given path and enumerates the values in the IniParser.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="iniPath">Full path to INI file.</param>
     public IniParser(String iniPath)
     {
         TextReader iniFile = null;
         String strLine = null;
         String currentRoot = null;
         String[] keyPair = null;
 
         iniFilePath = iniPath;
 
         if (File.Exists(iniPath))
         {
             try
             {
                 iniFile = new StreamReader(iniPath);
 
                 strLine = iniFile.ReadLine();
 
                 while (strLine != null)
                 {
                     //strLine = strLine.Trim().ToUpper();
 
                     if (strLine != "")
                     {
                         if (strLine.StartsWith("[") && strLine.EndsWith("]"))
                         {
                             currentRoot = strLine.Substring(1, strLine.Length - 2).ToUpper();;
                         }
                         else
                         {
                             keyPair = strLine.Split(new char[] { '=' }, 2);
 
                             SectionPair sectionPair;
                             String value = null;
 
                             if (currentRoot == null)
                                 currentRoot = "ROOT";
 
                             sectionPair.Section = currentRoot;
                             sectionPair.Key = keyPair[0];
 
                             if (keyPair.Length > 1)
                                 value = keyPair[1];
 
                             keyPairs.Add(sectionPair, value);
                         }
                     }
 
                     strLine = iniFile.ReadLine();
                 }
 
             }
             catch (Exception ex)
             {
             	
                 throw ex;
             }
             finally
             {
                 if (iniFile != null)
                     iniFile.Close();
             }
         }
         else
         {
            MessageBox.Show("Configuration file not found!");
         	throw new System.InvalidOperationException("Configuration file not found!");
         }

     }
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Returns the value for the given section, key pair.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="sectionName">Section name.</param>
     /// <param name="settingName">Key name.</param>
     public String GetSetting(String sectionName, String settingName)
     {
         SectionPair sectionPair;
         sectionPair.Section = sectionName.ToUpper();
         sectionPair.Key = settingName;
 
         return (String)keyPairs[sectionPair];
     }
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Enumerates all lines for given section.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="sectionName">Section to enum.</param>
     public String[] EnumSection(String sectionName)
     {
         ArrayList tmpArray = new ArrayList();
 
         foreach (SectionPair pair in keyPairs.Keys)
         {
             if (pair.Section == sectionName.ToUpper())
                 tmpArray.Add(pair.Key);
         }
 
         return (String[])tmpArray.ToArray(typeof(String));
     }
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Adds or replaces a setting to the table to be saved.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="sectionName">Section to add under.</param>
     /// <param name="settingName">Key name to add.</param>
     /// <param name="settingValue">Value of key.</param>
     public void AddSetting(String sectionName, String settingName, String settingValue)
     {
         SectionPair sectionPair;
         sectionPair.Section = sectionName.ToUpper();
         sectionPair.Key = settingName;
 
         if (keyPairs.ContainsKey(sectionPair))
             keyPairs.Remove(sectionPair);
 
         keyPairs.Add(sectionPair, settingValue);
     }
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Adds or replaces a setting to the table to be saved with a null value.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="sectionName">Section to add under.</param>
     /// <param name="settingName">Key name to add.</param>
     public void AddSetting(String sectionName, String settingName)
     {
         AddSetting(sectionName, settingName, null);
     }
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Remove a setting.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="sectionName">Section to add under.</param>
     /// <param name="settingName">Key name to add.</param>
     public void DeleteSetting(String sectionName, String settingName)
     {
         SectionPair sectionPair;
         sectionPair.Section = sectionName.ToUpper();
         sectionPair.Key = settingName;
 
         if (keyPairs.ContainsKey(sectionPair))
             keyPairs.Remove(sectionPair);
     }
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Save settings to new file.
     /// </summary>
     /// <param name="newFilePath">New file path.</param>
     public void SaveSettings(String newFilePath)
     {
         ArrayList sections = new ArrayList();
         String tmpValue = "";
         String strToSave = "";
 
         foreach (SectionPair sectionPair in keyPairs.Keys)
         {
             if (!sections.Contains(sectionPair.Section))
                 sections.Add(sectionPair.Section);
         }
 
         foreach (String section in sections)
         {
             strToSave += ("[" + section + "]\r\n");
 
             foreach (SectionPair sectionPair in keyPairs.Keys)
             {
                 if (sectionPair.Section == section)
                 {
                     tmpValue = (String)keyPairs[sectionPair];
 
                     if (tmpValue != null)
                         tmpValue = "=" + tmpValue;
 
                     strToSave += (sectionPair.Key + tmpValue + "\r\n");
                 }
             }
 
             strToSave += "\r\n";
         }
 
         try
         {
             TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(newFilePath);
             tw.Write(strToSave);
             tw.Close();
         }
         catch (Exception ex)
         {
             throw ex;
         }
     }
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Save settings back to ini file.
     /// </summary>
     public void SaveSettings()
     {
         SaveSettings(iniFilePath);
     }
 }
}