>Hi all,
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>An associate has just posed a question about the WSH that I'm confident *someone* here knows.
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>Can the WSH manipulate values in existing INI files, and if so, what would be a *basic* syntax to do so? (reason: they have an INI file controlling an app that contains an output location, and they want to repeatedly change that location programmatically before firing an instance of the app).
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>TIA,

Evan,

The WSH has no intrinsic functionality for ini files. You'd have to use the Scripting.FileSystemObject's TextStream Object and parse the file to read or write a specific value.

If using VFP, I'd stick with the API calls for this sort of thing.