Hi everybody. I had just a simple question. Ok, i had the following problem. I had some ini-files in which many important information about my applikation are saved. Now when i read from this file and i would only a definitely string like "InstallPath = c:\programs\". Exists there any search algorithms with which i can find such a string quickly, because when the files are very big the perfomance will suffer. I know there exists a binary-search-algorithms, but this one is not good for this case. I hope someone can help me. Thank you for you help! Peter G.

Well the easiest solution is stick to the INI-Standards, don''t use any weird sutom file stuff and use the GetPrivateProfileString and WritePrivateProfileString to handle the ini file. If that''s two slow (I''ve tested it on files up to a couple hundred kb) e-mail me back and I''ll post an "InStr" procedure, it works like vb''s instr but it''s written in asm. You could eaily stick it into in-line assembly.
See ya,
Ben

P.S. actually e-mail me if you want that procedure. Otherwise I may forget to check back on the post. :-)

Hi ben

thank you for the tip with the INI-File standard-functions. I decide now to write and read the setting information about my application from the registry. I think thats easier and I do not need an Ini-File.
Nevertheless thank you for your help

bye

P. Gmeiner

When you mean that the information which is saved in the registry is a useless junk then you are wrong. In the most cases the Information who was earlier saved in Ini-Files, now are in the registry. And I think this is the background idea of the registry, to reduce the Ini-Files. And these are in my eyes only some important setting data like InstallPath or the Language. A good software should remove when it were uninstalled the registry-entries automatically. I think for the User the registry is completely uninteresting and that should be so. I also not say that I will save big pile of information to the registry. My first question was only if there exists a method to get definitely information from a file very quickly and nothing more!!

P.G.