Unexpected behavior - IniRead

[Winter Laite]

kstests.ini:

[SECTION1]
Primate = Baboon
[SECTION2]
Primate = Bonobo

Code for first test::

Value := IniRead("kstests.ini", "SECTION1", "Primate", "Monkey")
MsgBox("The primate is a " Value, "Who's in the zoo?")

AHK reports that ‘[T]he primate is a Baboon’, correctly.

Keysharp reports the default: ‘The primate is a Monkey’.

The following error message is reported:

Uncaught Keysharp exception:

Message: The operation completed successfully.

What: Keysharp.Core.Ini.IniRead()

if the following code is used for testing (i.e., default omitted):

Value := IniRead("kstests.ini", "SECTION1", "Primate")
MsgBox("The primate is a " Value, "Who's in the zoo?")

But with AHK this runs correctly and reports the Baboon to be in residence.

As a sanity check, the following .INI file was used:

[sectionone]
keyval=theval
#Comment 1
[sectiontwo]
groupkey1=groupval1
#Comment 2
groupkey2=groupval2
#Comment 3
groupkey3=groupval3

[sectionthree]
groupkey11=groupval11
groupkey22=groupval22
groupkey33=groupval33
#Comment 4

Taken from the Keysharp code.

Test code:

Value := IniRead(".\testini.ini", "sectiontwo", "groupkey1", "did not find")
MsgBox("The value is " Value)

This works in both AHK and Keysharp, reporting “groupkey1” correctly.

My issue, which well may not be a bug, is that the first .INI file and test code do not work in Keysharp.

This also works in Keysharp:

Value := IniRead(".\testini.ini", "sectiontwo", "groupkey1")
MsgBox("The value is " Value)

although the default is NOT present.

This leads me to believe this is not a bug, just unexpected or different behavior. I will try limiting section names to lowercase and report back. Thanks for your patience.

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[Winter Laite]

The first .INI file was changed as follows:

[sectionone]
primate=Baboon
[sectiontwo]
primate2=Bonobo

Test code that works in both AHK and Keysharp:

Value := IniRead(".\kstests.ini", "sectionone", "primate")
MsgBox("The primate is a " Value, "Who's in the zoo?")

No default value, yet correct result in both.

If this is a bug, it appears to be related to uppercase in section names (possibly elsewhere, will check).

[Winter Laite]

It appears that an INI file written with ‘IniWrite’ does not suffer from the case problems. For now, I will create them with Keysharp and ‘IniWrite’.

[Matt Feemster]

The problem was that the files were not being processed in a case insensitive manner.

I’ve fixed it so that section1, Section1 and SECTION1 all would work.

Please test.

[Winter Laite]

Tested with various case combinations, including mixed case. Fixed! Please mark as resolved and close. Thanks!