INIFile DLL (INIFI)

Class for parsing ini files in Visual Basic 5-6

Also the library INIFile.dll is compatible with 1C 77

Set/Get path to ini file

Public Sub SetPath(inputPath)
Public Function GetPath() As String

Reading and parsing a ini file

Public Function Load() As Boolean
Public Function LoadFrom(filePath) As Boolean

Loaded data from a file

Public Function Loaded() As Boolean

Checks whether there is property inside the section

Public Function E(sectionName, Optional propertyName) As Boolean
Public Function ExistProperty(sectionName, Optional propertyName) As Boolean

Returns the value of the property in a certain section

Public Function G(sectionName, Optional propertyName) As String
Public Function GetProperty(sectionName, Optional propertyNam) As String

Dictionary CompareMode

Public Function GetCompareMode() As Byte
Public Function SetCompareMode(mode) As Boolean

Get the type of properties

Public Function TOP(sectionName, Optional propertyName) As Integer
Public Function TypeOfProperty(sectionName, Optional propertyName) As Integer

Const types:

• TYPE_OF_NOT_DEFINED = -1
• TYPE_OF_DICTIONARY = 2
• TYPE_OF_NOT_EXIST = 0
• TYPE_OF_STRING = 1

Get array data in the form of a dictionary

Public Function GD(sectionName, Optional propertyName) As Object
Public Function GetDictionary(sectionName, Optional propertyName) As Object

Get array data in the form of a array

Public Function GA(sectionName, Optional propertyName)
Public Function GetArray(sectionName, Optional propertyName)

Class properties

Format:

• 0 = TristateFalse - Default. Open the file as ASCII
• -1 = TristateTrue - Open the file as Unicode
• -2 = TristateUseDefault - Open the file using the system default

Public Format As Integer

Create the file if it does not exist

• True - Create
• False - Ignore

Public Create As Boolean

To export a full data dictionary

Public Function Export() As Object

Example

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set ini = CreateObject("INIFile.INIFI")
ini.SetPath (FSO.GetAbsolutePathName(FSO.BuildPath(app.Path, app.EXEName & ".ini")))
ini.Create = True
ini.Format = -2 'Cyrillic
status = ini.SetCompareMode(vbTextCompare)
MsgBox CStr(ini.Load())