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Borland BCB5 TInifile ignores Quotation Marks with Readstring()?

I am not quite familar with Borland C++ Builder 5 and am stuck with an issue.

I have an INI file with:

[Section1]
Ident1="myUser1"
Ident2=myPassword

I read the Username and Password values with this code:

{
auto_ptr<TIniFile> ifile(new TIniFile(myinifile));
AnsiString InternalUser= ifile->ReadString("Section1", "Ident1", "Defaultuser");
AnsiString InternalPassword= ifile->ReadString("Section1", "Ident2","Defaultpassword");
}

Here is the function declaration:

virtual AnsiString __fastcall ReadString(const AnsiString Section, const AnsiString Ident, const AnsiString Default);

Expected Output:

Ident1="myUser1" (with ")
Ident2=myPassword

Actual Output: 

Ident1=myUser1 (without ")
Ident2=myPassword

While trying to debug this, I get a lot of Delphi system calls I dont know and cant find documentation for, like LStrToPChar, LStrClr, etc.

I was expecting some sort of Trim() but was wrong.

Can somebody enlighten me on the problem, please?

Solution

  • This class is a wrapper around the long since deprecated Windows INI file API. The function that reads the values is GetPrivateProfileString and its documentation says:

    If the string associated with lpKeyName is enclosed in single or double quotation marks, the marks are discarded when the GetPrivateProfileString function retrieves the string.

    Hence the behaviour that you observe.