Question

Deleting the entries in an .ini file

Asked by: Hawkeye67

I have an application in VB6 that uses an .ini to store certain variable values relating to the condition of the program that can be changed by the user.  When the user changes any one or all the values, I would like to delete the old values in the ini file and replace with the new values.  When I use WritePrivateProfileString all that happens is that the new values are appended to the section involved leaving the old keys and old values like this:

[Section 1]
Key 1 = "Value"  (this is the old value)
Key 1 = "New Value"

As you can see, if I want the program to read the value of Key 1 in Section 1, there will be a problem.  So is there an API call that I am missing that would delete the old Key 1 and its accompanying value and replace it with new Key 1 and its new value?

Or is there some other way to do this?

Thank you for your help.

Hawkeye67

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1999-09-20 at 14:30:28ID10208633
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Visual Basic Programming

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by: mcriderPosted on 1999-09-20 at 15:01:25ID: 2061084

This code will delete an INI entry:



   Declare Function WritePrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias _
   "WritePrivateProfileStringA"(Section$, Key$, Value As Long, FName$) As Long

   Sub MAIN
   FName$ = "C:\TEST.INI"
   Section$  = "Section"
   Key$ = "Entry1"
   x = WritePrivateProfileString(Section$, Key$, 0, FName$)
   End Sub

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by: mcriderPosted on 1999-09-20 at 15:05:50ID: 2061090

By the way, you could get rid of the INI and use GetSetting, SaveSetting, and DeleteSetting to save your INI settings into the registry.

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