ID Number: Q69752
3.00 3.10
WINDOWS
Summary:
Microsoft Windows provides profile files which are a mechanism for an
application to store configuration about itself. The WIN.INI file is
the system profile file in which Windows stores configuration
information about itself. In versions of Windows prior to version 3.0,
applications also stored configuration information in the WIN.INI
file. Windows 3.0 introduced private profile files, which can store
application-specific information.
An application can retrieve information from a profile file by calling
the GetProfileString or GetPrivateProfileString function. If the
profile file associates the specified lpKeyName value with a string
that is delimited by quotation marks, Windows discards the quotation
marks when it copies the associated string into the application-
provided buffer.
For example, if the following entry appears in the profile file:
[application name] [application name]
keyname = 'string' or keyname = "string"
The GetPrivateProfileString and GetProfileString functions read the
string value and discard the quotation marks.
More Information:
This behavior allows spaces to be put into a string. For example, the
profile entry
keyname = string
returns the string without a leading space, whereas
keyname = ' string' or keyname = " string"
returns the string with a leading space.
Doubling quotation marks includes quotation marks in the string. For
example:
keyname = ''string'' or keyname = ""string""
returns the string with its quotation marks -- 'string' or "string".
Additional reference words: 3.00 3.10 SR# G910131-36 MICS3 R3.9