On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Jorge Aldo G. de F. Junior said:
I would vote for a new function on all stream types to allow writing
strings in the expected way
There is no default way to stream a string.
On textfiles you only stream contents, on binary files usually a length
field (which can be 1,2,4 bytes depending on format) + contents.
The latter exists:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/classes/tstream.writeansistring.html
We could make an optional parameter "AsText : Boolean = False" which would
then write the former.
Downside is that the 'read' operation will not be able to read the text form.
Michael.
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