Read quote in ini file.

Keywords:  Read quotes ini file inireadpvt

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Question:

I am having difficulty with IniReadPvt(...) reading embedded quotes and spaces in an ini file.

For example my ini file reads as follows....
[MAIN]
keyword=" hello "

I want to read " hello " from the file, but it seems to be removing the quotes and the spaces....

Any ideas?

Answer:

Ok, here is the issue. The iniReadPvt is going to recognize the quotes. Quotes are ignored by ini file operations. But it does *see* the spaces.

Depending on your needs
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You could try this.....

dastring=IniReadPvt (section, keyname, default, filename)
message("Length of string (Notice it does see the
spaces)",strlen(dastring))
;concatenate quotes onto the string
dastring=strcat('"',dastring,'"')
message("resulting string",dastring)
exit

*OR*

You could use a character in the ini file to stand in place of quotes, then convert them to quotes once read into winbatch....

NOTE: The character you use in the ini file cannot possibly match any other character in the ini file....

INI file

[MAIN]
Keyword=#$   item   #$

WBT file

dastring=IniReadPvt (section, keyname, default, filename)
;Replace #$ with "
dastring=StrReplace(dastring, '#$', '"')
message("resulting string",dastring)
exit

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Article ID:   W14610

Filename:   Read quote in ini file.txt