reading all key in section in INI file

[lsy]

How can i loop all the key value inside a section in an INI file?

[nelo]

How are you reading the INI file to begin with?

[lsy]

How are you reading the INI file to begin with?

i just want to read from certain section... i know there is a function GetPrivateProfileString(), but it need to specify the exact section and keyname... what about i wanna read out all key and values inside the section?

[nelo]

I may be wrong but seems to be a Windows API function and not available in the .NET Framework directly. At least not in .NET 2.0. If you want to take that approach there is also the GetPrivateProfileSection function that will give you all the key value pairs in a section. Are you planning to use platform invoke to access the native Windows API?

[opedog]

If you didn't have access to an INI parser I would write one that read the data into a:

Dictionary<string header, Dictionary<string key, string value>>

Then you can find whatever key value you needed very easily.

As far as the parsing itself, that's really easy to do, in fact, it's probably already done on codeproject.com or somewhere similar.

[nelo]

If you didn't have access to an INI parser I would write one that read the data into a:

Dictionary<string header, Dictionary<string key, string value>>

Then you can find whatever key value you needed very easily.

As far as the parsing itself, that's really easy to do, in fact, it's probably already done on codeproject.com or somewhere similar.

Very good point. This would probably be a good approach if you are likely to want the same functionality in other projects/development work. You will have to weigh up the two options and decide which is more flexible/easy for what you need. OpeDog's approach is really good if you will need to access other sections of the file.

[lsy]

i just wanna read out the key on the particular section of the ini files...
what is the different between GetPrivateProfileSection and GetProfileSection?

[nelo]

i just wanna read out the key on the particular section of the ini files...
what is the different between GetPrivateProfileSection and GetProfileSection?

GetProfileSection is used for specifically for the win.ini file. For other INI files you have to use GetPrivatProfileSection.

[lsy]

GetProfileSection is used for specifically for the win.ini file. For other INI files you have to use GetPrivatProfileSection.

If i don't specify the section(AppName) name but only specify the key... would it be able to search whole file and return me the value of the key?
i try
GetPrivateProfileString(null, sKey, "", temp, 255, @sINIFile);
i read from MSDN is should be able to return...
pleae advice...