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From: risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: EnumProfileStrings() , is there such?
Message-ID: <765@tuura.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 90 12:48:13 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Nokia Data Systems Oy
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Hi!

There are functions Get/WriteProfileString() in Windows SDK 2.0 and, in
addition, Get/WritePrivateProfileString() in Windows SDK 3.0 .  They work
fine, but to use them, you would need to know either/both of the section
name (which appears in square brackets in corresponding .INI file) and/or
the keyword (which is followed by equal sign and the setting itself).

Now, is there a way to 'Enumerate' either the section names in a particular
.INI file or the keywords under a particular section?  Haven't found one,
except just reading the file and inspecting it on a line-by-line basis
(which I regard extremely inelegant).

I'm also wondering what I *think* I have seen (but could not verify in an
actual installation).  That is, the same keyword more than once under one
section tag (as far as I recall right, the 'windows' section in WIN.INI
has been noticed to list more than one 'device' keywords).  Well, calling
the GetProfileString("AnySection","NonUniqueKeyword",...) returns only
the setting of the first occurrance of more than one.  Wondering how the
others could be read...

Terveisin: Risto Lankinen
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