ini problem????

[andycharger]

My ini is returning a string value to my VB application but it is bringing it back with a square block on the end of the string.

It is an db path like this "C:\irs\irs1.mdb"

trouble is it has the square symbol at th eend of it.

Anyone know a way to stop the square coming back with the string?

 

Andy

[Volte]

That depends.. how are you reading from your INI file? Post code please.

[andycharger]

Dim strCon As String

Dim sString As String

Dim lSize As Long

Dim lReturn As Long

 

Dim sNull As String

sString = String$(16, "*")

lSize = Len(sString)

 

 

lReturn = GetPrivateProfileString("irsconnection", "irsconn", "", sString, lSize, sFile)

strCon = sString

Connect.ConStr = strCon

[Volte]

Well, I suppose it's possible that your buffer is a bit too large. Try

doing it like this:

Dim lSize As Long
Dim sString As String = New String(" ", 300) 'create the buffer; this is a better way than String$

lSize = GetPrivateProfileString("irsconnection", "irsconn", "", sString, 300, sFile)
sString = sString.SubString(0, lSize)

That dynamically gets the required size, rather than fixing it in one

spot.

 

Also, you should not use String$, as it is a VB6 compatability function

and is not CLR compliant.

[Volte]

Also, instead of using INI files, I would recommend using XML files

instead, as .NET has native support for them. Read in the MSDN about the System.Xml namespace.