>I have a class in which I have a few Tstring lists.
>
>I now want to access those string list by their name from a sting the user
>enters in a edit box.
>
>How do I do this?
Your program needs to correlate the string entered by the user to the object.
If you only have few, the simplest way would just be to use an if construct:
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var
SelectedStringList: TStrings;
UserSelectedStringList: string;
{Assert: You assigned the string entered by the user to the variable
UserSelectedStringList}
SelectedStringList:=nil;
if UserSelectedStringList = 'NameOfStringList1' then
SelectedStringList:=StringList1
else if UserSelectedStringList = 'NameOfStringList2' then
SelectedStringList:=StringList2
else if UserSelectedStringList = 'NameOfStringList3' then
SelectedStringList:=StringList3
else ShowMessage('Invalid StringList');
{Assert: SelectedStringList is now assigned}
if SelectedStringList <> nil then begin
{Do your processing using SelectedStringList here}
end;
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If you have more than a few, you could use a TStringList where the strings in
the list contain
the string the user enters and the Objects associated with each points to the
TStrings object.
Glenn Lawler
www.incodesystems.com
