August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
1140 pages
68h 45m
English
GetProfileString
GetProfileString(inipath, section, entry)Returns entry from
section of the initialization file
specified in inipath. Initialization files
are used to set operating system and application-specific variables
during system boot or application launch. Initialization files can be
identified by their .ini file extension.
Here’s an example that returns a profile string from
one of ColdFusion’s initialization files:
<cfset MyPath = "c:\winnt\odbc.ini"> <cfset MySection = "cfsnippets"> <cfset MyEntry = "driver32"> <cfoutput> <b>Path:</b> #MyPath#<br> <b>Section:</b> #MySection#<br> <b>Entry:</b> #MyEntry#<br> <p><b>Profile String:</b> #GetProfileString(MyPath, MySection, MyEntry)# </cfoutput>