InideletePvt with @wholesection

Keywords:    inidelete wholesection

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Question:

I am trying to remove a section in a program and am using the INIReadPvt function to get @WHOLESECTION. It appears the EXE looks for a KEY @WHOLESECTION rather than interpreting it to delete the entire section.

Is there an elegant way with quotes or percents or SOMETHING so I don't have to parse the line first and decide if I need to get the entire section?

Answer:

This works for me. Notice there are no quotes around @wholesection:

        IniDeletePvt("sectionName",@WHOLESECTION, "path\whatever.ini")

@WHOLESECTION is a built in constant in WinBatch. But sometimes by the time you get to it (if you're doing variable substitution), it has transmogrified itself into a string of "@WHOLESECTION". This is the part that needs to be fixed.

Try:

IniFileName = ItemExtract(1,IniEntry, ",")
SectionName = ItemExtract(2,IniEntry, ",")
KeyName=ItemExtract(3,IniEntry, ",")

Message("Sectioname before",Sectionname)

if Sectionname=="@WHOLESECTION" then Sectionname=@WHOLESECTION

Message("Sectioname after",Sectionname)

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Article ID:   W13336

Filename:   IniDelete Wholesection.txt