Bakekitsune's Editable Binary Database (.INI STYLE!)

[Bakekitsune]

EDIT: seraphelic omg i swear to god i didn't steal your idea sorry mate i did this then posted it and looked at the other topics and i was like WTF! usually only people who get stoned have the same ideas as me.
i haven't been on here in years, man this forum has changed so much :S

YOU CAN EDIT THIS WITH NOTEPAD

This is my code, (it can save 1000 strings in 5 milliseconds WOOT!). Anyway that's all and good but i was just wondering if there was a better way of doing it? or a way to optimize it faster? any changes? its not quite finished yet... im gonna use pointers

Also theres one more feature i need to add in each function. one can save an array but can't save In an array, the other can only do the opposite (but loading), just need to pull the codes over basically. Although you can do without quite easily it just won't be as fast.

You can also select which pieces of data from the file to load into memory.
Save a piece of data without having to save the whole file all over again.
EDIT: The position of the data and length isn't saved in the db but calculated by good old but FAST assembly.

Code:

ttime1 = GetTickCount()

    Call SaveEditBin("bakekitsune", "data", "IAMDATA", 1000)
    
    ttime2 = GetTickCount()
    
    Call SaveEditBin("bakekitsune", "time", CStr(ttime2 - ttime1))
    
    MsgBox LoadEditbin("bakekitsune", "data", 543)

omg make the code box bigger!

Code:

Sub SaveEditBin(Name As String, Var As String, Val As String, Optional ByRef ArraySize As Long, Optional ByRef nFileNum As Byte)
Dim i As Long, dbpos As Long

If nFileNum = 0 Then
nFileNum = FreeFile

    If ArraySize = 0 Then
        Open App.Path & "\" & Name & ".txt" For Binary Access Write Lock Read Write As #nFileNum
            Put #nFileNum, AscW(Var) * MAX_CHARS, sC & Var & "=" & Val
        Close #nFileNum
    Else
        dbpos = AscW(Var) + 255
        Open App.Path & "\" & Name & ".txt" For Binary Access Write Lock Read Write As #nFileNum
            For i = 0 To ArraySize
                Put #nFileNum, (dbpos + i) * MAX_CHARS, sC & Var & i & "=" & Val
            Next i
        Close #nFileNum
    End If
End If
End Sub

Function LoadEditbin(Name As String, Var As String, Optional ByRef ArrayNum As Long) As String
    Dim nFileNum As Byte, dbcompile As String, dbArray() As String

    If ArrayNum = 0 Then
        nFileNum = FreeFile
        Open App.Path & "\" & Name & ".txt" For Binary Access Read Lock Read Write As #nFileNum
            dbcompile = Space$(MAX_CHARS)
            Get #nFileNum, AscW(Var) * MAX_CHARS, dbcompile
        Close #nFileNum
    Else
        nFileNum = FreeFile
        Open App.Path & "\" & Name & ".txt" For Binary Access Read Lock Read Write As #nFileNum
            dbcompile = Space$(MAX_CHARS)
            Get #nFileNum, (AscW(Var) + ArrayNum + 255) * MAX_CHARS, dbcompile
        Close #nFileNum
    End If

dbArray() = Split(dbcompile, "=", MAX_CHARS, vbBinaryCompare)
LoadEditbin = dbArray(1)
End Function

Result: Text file with (you can edit with Notepad and it will come up with the right result)

Code:

time=05
data0=IAMDATA              
data1=IAMDATA              
data2=IAMDATA              
data3=IAMDATA
etc...x1000

In this case data543=IAMDATA if i change data543=OH!YEAH in notepad, then if you ask for data543 then you get OH!YEAH .

>>> PS: Props to Sepiroth for giving me my first lesson in binary ( Yes i optimized it with NO dope! or NOdoze... i always get confused between the two EDIT: oh yeh kids don't take drugs its NOT cool)

If your gonna tax this code i dunno put like Bakekitsune's Editable BinDB anyway reference me or i will stab u!

[seraphelic]

usually only people who get stoned have the same ideas as me.