Reading INI's

[BoBBaGe]

i use an ini for a config i have on one of my projects. one of the things i have to save/load is a multiline textbox (obviously with multiline text). on writing the ini, it writes the multiline

"Code=lineblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah
lineblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah
lineblahblahblah"

which is wat i want its just on getting the ini to load, it only loads the first line

"Code=lineblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah"

instead of all of the lines into the textbox

i would like it to load all of the lines into the multiline textbox (txtCode.Text) which i have created

can anyone help me on this?

[Grok]

When writing your multiline text to the INI, replace the CRLFs with a relatively non-typable character, like chr(1).  Then when reading the INI entries, replace the Chr(1)'s with CRLFs again.

In this way, your multiline text will show in INI file as a single-line entry.  This is required for ReadPrivateProfileString() to work correctly.

Hope this helps.

[Camel]

Here's what I used to use on my bot:

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Function GS(ByVal Section As String, ByVal Name As String, Optional Default As String, Optional File As String = "Users.INI") As String
   Name = Replace(Name, "=", Chr(1))
   Section = Replace(Section, "[", "!")
   Section = Replace(Section, "]", "!")

   GS = Space(MaxValLength)
   GS = Left(GS, GetPrivateProfileString(Section, Name, Default, GS, Len(GS), App.Path & "\" & File))
   
   GS = Replace(GS, Chr(1), vbCr)
   GS = Replace(GS, Chr(2), """")
End Function

Sub SS(ByVal Section As String, ByVal Name As String, ByVal Value As String, Optional File As String = "Users.INI")
   Name = Replace(Name, "=", Chr(1))
   Section = Replace(Section, "[", "!")
   Section = Replace(Section, "]", "!")
   
   If Not IsNumeric(Value) Then
       Value = Replace(Value, vbCrLf, vbCr)
       Value = Replace(Value, vbCr, Chr(1))
       Value = Replace(Value, """", Chr(2))
       Value = """" & Value & """"
   End If
   
   WritePrivateProfileString Section, Name, Value, App.Path & "\" & File
End Sub