What's wrong with this code ? (CString issue)

[Tnarol]

Hi, Can someone explain why this code crashes (when calling ReleaseBuffer()) ? #define PROFILE CString("config.ini"); CString result; GetPrivateProfileString("MySection","MyString","",result.GetBuffer(),512,PROFILE); result.ReleaseBuffer(); And how can I avoid this ?

[Viorel]

I think you should specify the size of the allocated buffer:

GetPrivateProfileString("MySection", "MyString", "", result.GetBuffer(512), 512, PROFILE);

[Justin Tay]

My guess is the crash is due to writing past the allocated buffer memory that the CString has. Debug builds have some checks to see if you make this mistake. Get the CString to return a buffer that has a certain minimum size. #define PROFILE CString("config.ini"); CString result; GetPrivateProfileString("MySection","MyString","",result.GetBuffer(512),512,PROFILE); result.ReleaseBuffer();

[kk tvm]

Hi Please remove ';' in define line KK

[Laxman Auti]

Tnarol wrote:

GetPrivateProfileString("MySection","MyString","",result.GetBuffer(),512,PROFILE);

Result of the string where you get the data from ini file, it should be LPTSTR buffer, specify the size of that buffer instead of 512. Knock out 't' from can't, You can if you think you can :cool:

[welkass]

Try this: #define PROFILE "config.ini"; CString result(_T(" "),512); GetPrivateProfileString("MySection","MyString","",result.GetBuffer(),512,PROFILE); result.ReleaseBuffer(); May be you are trying to release some memory not allocated.

[_AnsHUMAN_]

For GetBuffer method : Call this method to return the buffer contents of the CSimpleStringT object. You are having this string empty. Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them. ;-) _AnShUmAn_

[Hamid Taebi]

See a little class to Read Ini File[^] maybe it is some helpful to you_**

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[David Crow]

You have two compiler errors. The first is a missing argument to GetBuffer(). The second is an erroneous semicolon at the end of PROFILE.

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