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InideletePvt with @wholesection
Keywords: inidelete wholesection
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)
Article ID: W13336
Filename: IniDelete Wholesection.txt
File Created: 1999:04:15:16:53:20
Last Updated: 1999:04:15:16:53:20