VB6 - How to delete a section from an INI file

[mendhak]

I suddenly remembered the code bank when I did a post in the General VB Forum. Might be useful to some. Anyways, to delete a section from an INI file, you use the WritePrivateProfileString API. A typical code example would look something like this:

'this goes into the declaration section of the 
'code
Declare Function WritePrivateProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias "WritePrivateProfileStringA" (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, ByVal lpKeyName As Any, ByVal lpString As Any, ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long
 
Public sub DeleteKey
Dim sSection As String
Dim sKey As String
Dim sFileName as String
 
sSection = "Section1"
sKey = "Key1"
sFileName="C:\MyINIFILE.INI"
 
'if the key exists, delete it from the section
   If len(trim(sKey)) <>0 Then
      WritePrivateProfilestring sSection, sKey, _
         vbNullString, sFileName
   Else
      'no key specified, then delete section
      WritePrivateProfileString _
         sSection,sKey,vbNullString,sFileName
   End If
End Sub