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INI Entry more that 255 Characters?

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PCSAARON

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Doeas anyone know if an INI entry can have more that 255 characters for a value?


Aaron
 
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Why not?
By using GetPrivateProfileString, WritePrivateProfileString you can. Just make sure that you have resized buffer.
 
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I encountered lots of very long INI entries. Usually they were string-encoded binary keys or structures (printer settings, for example).

Best regards
 
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Thanks for your quick responses. I did adjust the buffer sizes and it worked fine. Its just confusing when "STRING" in VB usually means 255 characters... Variant would be a better word I would think... Ah well, Microshaft, gotta love em!

Aaron
 
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No. Strings are quite a bit larger nowadays. I think you can store about 30K in a string.
A variant is something different. It is halfway to a typeless type.

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