Question

I am having a little trouble getting the my program to check whether or not a .ini file is empty or contains the path to a webpage.

My .ini file:

[WEB]
Location =

The following is my code. It will not enter the if statement and show the Dialogbox:

GetPrivateProfileStringA("WEBSERVICES", "Location", "none set", webLocation, sizeof(webLocation), pathStr);

    if (webLocation == "1"){
        DialogBox(hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDD_ABOUTBOX), hWnd, About);
        EnableMenuItem(hmenu, ID_WEBSERVICES_RUN, MF_GRAYED);
        }

Any help on this issue would be appreciated.

Regards
-Dan.

Answer 1

The if condition is incorrect, use strcmp() to compare char arrays:

if (0 == strcmp(webLocation, "1")){

This:

if (webLocation == "1"){

compares the address of webLocation to the address of the string literal "1", which always will be false (in this case).

Note that the section name WEB does not match that specified in the call to GetPrivateProfileStringA().