INI files

Kis · December 12th, 2003, 09:33 PM

I am new to c#. So can you please tell me how to use INI kind of stuff in c#?

Like i have one INI file
************** abc.ini************
[info]
key=ABC
symbol=logo
value=12

[languages]
009=English
000=french ... etc.
**********************************

It no need to use ini file, file can be of any type. I want to read from this file.

KABay · December 15th, 2003, 10:45 AM

Look into using an XML file instead. C# has a very powerful set of classes that allow you to read, search & modify XML 'documents', which are still human readable and editable.

Kis · December 17th, 2003, 05:02 AM

Thanks for the reply KABay
But what i though as it is very easy to understand any INI file rather then XML file.
Actualy i want to have something like different Sections, so just use a loop to get al the keys in one section. I don't want to write everything as hard coded. If you can suggests me something for this then :)

Any way i'll try to use XML :)

Thx...

DeborahStoddard · April 2nd, 2015, 05:04 AM

Here is a library for both reading and writing INI files in C#.
You can achieve exactly what you have mentioned: "just use a loop to get al the keys in one section"
For example something like this:

Code:

IniFile ini = new IniFile();
ini.Load("abc.ini");

IniSection infoSection = ini.Sections["info"];
foreach (IniKey key in infoSection.Keys)
{
    string keyName = key.Name;
    string keyValue = key.Value;

    // Do something...
}

IniSection languagesSection = ini.Sections["languages"];
foreach (IniKey key in languagesSection.Keys)
{
    string keyName = key.Name;
    string keyValue = key.Value;

    // Do something...
}