How to load settings.ini into strings by category.

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Hey, I've been bothering a little with this can't see to find a simple solution, all my codes get too messy.

So I want to hear you out for help.

I have a settings file with different catogorys like this:

[CATOGORY1]
settings here.
[CATOGORY2]
settings here.
[CATOGORY3]
settings here.
[CATOGORY4]
settings here.

I want to sperate them into 4 strings when reading the file like:
Dim catogory1 as String =
Dim catogory2 as String =
Dim catogory3 as String =
Dim catogory4 as String =

Can any help me with this?

Posted 28-Mar-14 23:36pm

Bebser

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Solution 1

Have a look at this: INI Reader / Writer Class for C#, VB.NET, and VBScript[^] It provides fuctions to read the section names ("CATOGORY1", etc. in your example), and to read all the keys within a section.

Read the section names, read all the keys, and you can build your strings with any separator or format you want!

Posted 28-Mar-14 23:55pm

OriginalGriff

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Bebser 29-Mar-14 6:11am

Looks nice, but it's way to advanced for what I want. I jsut want like a simple function
being like.
Function GetSection(ByVal As String)
'code here
Return Section
End Function

so you call call it like Dim catogory1 as string = GetSection(CATOGORY1)

OriginalGriff 29-Mar-14 6:21am

It's because it's quite a complex function to do: using the library makes it a lot simpler than writing it from scratch.

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Bebser · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-29T04:53:00

Found this solution so simple:

VB

<DllImport("kernel32")> _
Private Shared Function GetPrivateProfileString(ByVal Section As String, ByVal Key As String, ByVal [Default] As String, ByVal RetVal As StringBuilder, ByVal Size As Integer, ByVal FilePath As String) As Integer
End Function
Public Function Read(ByVal Key As String, Optional ByVal Section As String = Nothing) As String
    Dim RetVal = New StringBuilder(255)
        GetPrivateProfileString(Section, Key, "", RetVal, 255, Path)
    Return RetVal.ToString()
End Function