'Example by Antti H�kkinen (antti@theredstar.f2s.com)
'Visit his website at http://www.theredstar.f2s.com/
'require variable declaration
Option Explicit

'declares for ini controlling
Private Declare Function GetPrivateProfileSection Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetPrivateProfileSectionA" (ByVal lpAppName As String, ByVal lpReturnedString As String, ByVal nSize As Long, ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function GetPrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetPrivateProfileStringA" (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, ByVal lpKeyName As Any, ByVal lpDefault As String, ByVal lpReturnedString As String, ByVal nSize As Long, ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function WritePrivateProfileSection Lib "kernel32" Alias "WritePrivateProfileSectionA" (ByVal lpAppName As String, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function WritePrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias "WritePrivateProfileStringA" (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, ByVal lpKeyName As Any, ByVal lpString As Any, ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long

'when form is loaded
Private Sub Form_Load()

'if error occures resume still
On Error Resume Next

'local variables
Dim File As String, OFLen As Double, _
    Str As String

'set our varibles
File = "C:\temp.txt"
OFLen = FileLen(File)

'write few example sections:
WriteIniSection File, "Test1", ""
WriteIniSection File, "Test2", "Here shoud be found some text"

'write few ini strings
WriteIni File, "Test3", "Ini1", "This is ini 1"
WriteIni File, "Test1", "Ini2", "This is ini 2"

'inform we're written the data
MsgBox Format((FileLen(File) - OFLen) / 1024, "0.00") & " KB data written to " & Chr(34) & File & Chr(34)

'read the ini file
Str = Str & "Test2 section: " & vbTab & ReadIniSection(File, "Test2") & vbCrLf
Str = Str & "Test1 section: " & vbTab & ReadIniSection(File, "Test1") & vbCrLf
Str = Str & "Ini1 string: " & vbTab & ReadIni(File, "Test3", "Ini1") & vbCrLf
Str = Str & "Ini2 string: " & vbTab & ReadIni(File, "Test1", "Ini2") & vbCrLf

'show data
MsgBox Str

'end application
End

End Sub

'// INI CONTROLLING PROCEDURES

'reads ini string
Public Function ReadIni(Filename As String, Section As String, Key As String) As String
Dim RetVal As String * 255, v As Long
v = GetPrivateProfileString(Section, Key, "", RetVal, 255, Filename)
ReadIni = Left(RetVal, v - 1)
End Function

'reads ini section
Public Function ReadIniSection(Filename As String, Section As String) As String
Dim RetVal As String * 255, v As Long
v = GetPrivateProfileSection(Section, RetVal, 255, Filename)
ReadIniSection = Left(RetVal, v - 1)
End Function

'writes ini
Public Sub WriteIni(Filename As String, Section As String, Key As String, Value As String)
WritePrivateProfileString Section, Key, Value, Filename
End Sub

'writes ini section
Public Sub WriteIniSection(Filename As String, Section As String, Value As String)
WritePrivateProfileSection Section, Value, Filename
End Sub

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