C#•17mo ago

❔ How do I store data properly?

So I'm streaming on Twitch and I have a program called Streamer.Bot which allows me to use C# to execute code. I have a very basic and limited understanding about C# and coding in general ~ what I'm trying to do is store my viewers data in specific categories I define myself. The main problem I'm having is understanding how to store the acquired data into a file (I haven't figured out another way yet, either .txt, .csv or .ini). An example how I'm imagining it: .ini file is named after my viewer's username in a folder with all the others:

[section1]
key1="value"
key2="value"

[section2]
key1="value"
key2="value"

[section1]
key1="value"
key2="value"

[section2]
key1="value"
key2="value"

I wanna be able to read it and override specific keys if I so desire. (Most of it is automatic) To sum it up, I know how to write it into a file but I don't know how to format it properly and check for specific sections and key+values and override them.

4 Replies

Thinker•17mo ago

You probably wanna use a JSON file for this So perhaps you have two categories, regular and super, then your JSON could look like this

{
  "regular": [
    "user1",
    "user2",
    "user3"
  ],
  "super": [
    "user4",
    "user5"
  ]
}

{
  "regular": [
    "user1",
    "user2",
    "user3"
  ],
  "super": [
    "user4",
    "user5"
  ]
}

I don't really know what you want, but JSON is very flexible, and it's very easy to convert JSON to and from C# data structures.

Immusama•17mo ago

Oh yea, thats seems like exactly what Im looking for. I will look into it! Thank you

Angius•17mo ago

Also, C# has a built-in way to serialize and deserialize JSON So that's one dependency less that you'd need to handle TOML or some other format

Accord•17mo ago

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❔ How do I store data properly?