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I am trying to understand a program someone else wrote and don't understand what the following is for

Private 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
        
Private Declare Function GetPrivateProfileString Lib _
        "kernel32" Alias "GetPrivateProfileStringA" _
        (ByVal lpApplicationName As String, ByVal _
        lpKeyName As Any, ByVal lpDefault As String, _
        ByVal lpReturnedString As String, ByVal nSize _
        As Long, ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long

Private Declare Function WritePrivateProfileSection Lib _
        "kernel32" Alias "WritePrivateProfileSectionA" _
        (ByVal lpAppName As String, ByVal lpString As _
        String, ByVal lpFileName As String) As Long
        
Private Declare Function GetPrivateProfileSection Lib _
        "kernel32" Alias "GetPrivateProfileSectionA" _
        (ByVal lpAppName As String, ByVal lpReturnedString _
        As String, ByVal nSize As Long, ByVal lpFileName _
        As String) As Long
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Hi,

They are All used to read/manipulate "INI" files. See, u can open the textFile and parse, reading character by charecter or Line by line, will take good deal of time.
Instead use these API's, and u can directly manipulate Required Section/String with the new one...

Regards
Veena

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