Read ini from windows batch file

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Published on 2010-05-19T13:55:53Z Indexed on 2010/05/19 14:00 UTC
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I'm trying to read a ini file with this format:

[SectionName]
total=4
[AnotherSectionName]
total=7
[OtherSectionName]
total=12

Basically I want to echo out certain values from the ini file(eg. the total under OtherSectionName followed by the total from AnotherSectionName).

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