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Article #7339Re: Parsing a registry file ???
From: Jonathan Benedicto
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:17
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:17
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I just tried exporting a non-NT4/w98 .reg file. I then opened it in notepad, and it is formated in a ini-file type style. So you could try using TMemIniFile to parse it. -- Jonathan "Marc" <NOSPAM_marc.beaudry@gmail.com> wrote in message news:4208f9c5$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > > Hi > > I tried your example and it results the same as my stream > functions. Registry files are not basic text file, they have > extra formatting. Try your code you'll see the outputs are > garbage. > > As for the code I posted its a stripped down version of actual > code, less the string processing I should be doing. Look up > getline() on msdn its an actual function used with streams. > > > I'll investigate some more, when using export in the registry > UI there are several ways to export a reg file one of which is > <Win9x/NT4 reg file> which strips out the formatting and then > is readable in standard code, either fstreams or usiong the > example you provided. The regedit command line documetation > is hard to come by, so if you know of a good place to find > regedit documentation let me know. > > again thanks for your help. > Marc
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