Re: Reading a path value in an "ini" file

Xaviou,

On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 12:02 PM Xaviou <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> As said in the title, I have to read some values in an ini file created by another app.
> Here is the corresponding part of the code (simplified):
>
> wxFileInputStream f_in(_T("Path to the ini file"));
> wxFileConfig datas(f_in);
> datas.SetPath(_T("/Settings"));
> wxString sValue  = datas.Read(_T("KeyName"));
> ......
>

As you already have the wxConfig - why are you not using its API?

Thank you.

> All works fine until the value of the corresponding key contains backslashes (for example the fullpath to a last used file).
> In this last case, the backslashes are treated as escape chars, and they are removed (their following chars are also removed).
> For example, reading the following:
> [Settings]
> KeyName=C:\Users\Xavier\Desktop\TestFile.txt
> will give:
> C:sersavieresktopestFile.txt
> As you can guess, I'm working on Windows.
> I tried doing trhe same thing in pure Win32 code (using GetPrivateProfileString), and it works correctly.
>
> As the ini file is not very big, I can read it manually, line by line, but I would prefer using the wxWidgets built-in classes if it was possible.
>
> Is there something I am doing wrong ?
>
> Regards
> Xav'
>
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