INI problem... - Solved

[chssoccer]

How do I clear a section where there is nothing left in that section of the INI?

Edited January 9, 2008 by chssoccer

[BigDod]

How do I clear a section where there is nothing left in that section of the INI?

Try IniDelete without specifying a key. See the help file.

[chssoccer]

Try IniDelete without specifying a key. See the help file.

no that didn't work...

[weaponx]

Works fine for me.

IniWrite("test.ini","test1", "key1", "value1")
IniWrite("test.ini","test2", "key2", "value2")
IniWrite("test.ini","test3", "key3", "value3")
IniDelete("test.ini", "test2")

[chssoccer]

Works fine for me.

IniWrite("test.ini","test1", "key1", "value1")
IniWrite("test.ini","test2", "key2", "value2")
IniWrite("test.ini","test3", "key3", "value3")
IniDelete("test.ini", "test2")

That deletes the section, but I just want to delete everything in the section

[weaponx]

Are you saying you want to set all of the keys to blank values?

[chssoccer]

Are you saying you want to set all of the keys to blank values?

No I want nothing in the section. Just to clear it completely. No keys, no values.

[weaponx]

Dude, if you use the IniDelete example I showed then it doesn't matter if the section name remains or not, if something attempts to write to that section it will recreate it.

[chssoccer]

Dude, if you use the IniDelete example I showed then it doesn't matter if the section name remains or not, if something attempts to write to that section it will recreate it.

Oh ok.

[weaponx]

If you absolutely need to retain the section name I think you can do...

$var = IniReadSection("test.ini", "section2")
If @error Then 
    MsgBox(4096, "", "Error occurred, probably no INI file.")
Else
    For $i = 1 To $var[0][0]
        IniDelete( "test.ini", "section2", $var[$i][0])
    Next
EndIf

[GEOSoft]

Also if you search example scripts you will find a couple of INI Udfs. One by myself and 1 by Smoke_N. I think one of us might have been smart enough to add in an _INI_DeleteKey() function. On the other hand I don't remember for sure. It wouldn't be difficult to do though.