[fpc-pascal] TInifile does not handle " " (space) as a value.

[Torsten Bonde Christiansen]

Dear List.

I was trying to use the ini file for our program to store a single space 
" " as a value, but this does not seem to be posible.

 From the Wikipedia definition of INI file 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file#Whitespace) whitespace in values 
does not seem to be well defined, so it may just be a design choice.

The following illustrates the issue:

program Project1;

{$mode objfpc}{$H+}

uses
   Classes, IniFiles;

var
   Ini: TIniFile;
   S: String;
begin
   Ini := TIniFile.Create('/tmp/test.ini');
   Ini.WriteString('sec1', 'S', ' ');
   Ini.Free;

   Ini := TIniFile.Create('/tmp/test.ini');
   S := Ini.ReadString('sec1', 'S', 'ZZ'); // S is '' and not ' ' as 
expected
   Ini.Free;
end.


Is this considered a bug or "by design"?

Kind regards
Torsten Bonde Christiansen