Help reading ini file

[MagniB]

Hello,

I am trying to read a ini file but having some problems.

Suppose I have a ini file, "infoDat.ini". It contains:

[Guy]
name=Magni
id=5
[Girl]
name=Sarah
id=6

Now I am trying to read "id" key from section "Guy", here's what I did:

int getID;

getID = GetPrivateProfileInt("Guy", "id", -1, "infoDat.ini");

Now the problem is, the function always return -1. Why is that? Isn't it suppose to return 5?

Please help me!!!

[ahmd]

You get your default value specified in the 3rd parameter in the call to GetPrivateProfileInt(). Most certainly the "infoDat.ini" file is not properly formatted, or it cannot be located by a relative path. To remedy specify a full file path in the lpFileName parameter.

PS. You realize that GetPrivateProfileInt() API was deprecated in favor of the System Registry APIs, don't you?

[Igor Vartanov]

From MSDN

lpFileName [in]

The name of the initialization file. If this parameter does not contain a full path to the file, the system searches for the file in the Windows directory.

[Igor Vartanov]

The cure:

#include <windows.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <tchar.h>

#define COUNTOF(x)  (sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]))

BOOL MakeFilePathNextToMe(LPCTSTR fileName, LPTSTR outPath, DWORD cchPath)
{
	if (GetModuleFileName(NULL, outPath, cchPath))
	{
		LPTSTR p = _tcsrchr(outPath, TEXT('\\'));
		if (p)
		{
			_tcscpy(p + 1, fileName);
			return TRUE;
		}
	}
	return FALSE;
}

int _tmain()
{
	int getID;

	TCHAR iniPath[MAX_PATH] = {0};

	if (!MakeFilePathNextToMe(TEXT("infoDat.ini"), iniPath, COUNTOF(iniPath)))
	{
		return -1;
	}

	getID = GetPrivateProfileInt(TEXT("Guy"), TEXT("id"), -1, iniPath);
	_tprintf(TEXT("id = &#37;d\n"), getID);

	return 0;
}

[MagniB]

I did try and specify the full path but didn't work. And I also know GetPrivateProfileInt() API was deprecated in favor of the System Registry APIs, but in this situation, I have to use ini file.

I will try Igor's code and see what happens.

[MagniB]

Nope, Igor's code is also giving "id = -1". lol why is this happening?

[MagniB]

Ok, got it. Finally it worked. I needed to keep the ini file in Debug folder. lol

[Igor Vartanov]

You need to keep .ini file next to your executable wherever it is, Debug folder in case you run Debug build from VS IDE. I thought it'd easy to get from the source.