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Help reading from INI file in Visual C++ 6.0

How do I read from an INI file in Visual C++ 6.0? I have experience with GetPrivateProfileString in VB 6.0, but not sure on what to do in C++. I assume I have to define the API appropriately, then I can simply call it just as I do in VB.

Any help would be very much appreciated. I will also search the knowledgebase.

Thanks,

Todd Doucet

None yet.  This is for an existing DLL that is fairly sophistocated; however, it has no facility built into it to read from an INI file.  I would suggest reading from an XML file, but I don't know if that is possible with Visual C++ 6.0.  I can read a line from a file with the existing code, so if I have to, I will modify that code to read the lines in and then parse out the value I need.  It would be so much easier with the code to read values directly from an INI file, though.

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tad0jazz

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I looked in the Knowledgebase and it appears that "09/16/99 04:16 PM, ID: 10207256" will answer my question. I will try the various code options that were suggested, but primarily the GetPrivateProfileString option, and I will update this question with the results once implemented.
If someone has a better suggestion, please feel free to respond.
Thanks,
tad0jazz

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tad0jazz

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Thank you for replying. You deserve the points for your effort, although I was able to locate similar information in the Knowledgebase. Next time I will search the Knowledgebase first and only ask a question if I cannot locate an answer from a previous post.

Thanks again for replynig.

tad0jazz

By the way, GetPrivateProfileString() worked as expected.