I thought it was around 32767 items on Win 9x
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Neven MacEwan
> Sent: Friday, 9 March 2001 12:37
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Referencing variable TextFile names
>
>
> Patrick
>
>
> > TStrings is fine if you want to read and write a whole file at once. If
> you
> > just want to write one line to the end of the file then it's
> not required.
>
> When you consider Virtual Memory and disk Caching the is there a
> difference?
> :-)
> or are you simply moving a textfile about in mem?
>
> Isn't there also a size limit on TStrings
>
> Neven
>
>
>
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > > Behalf Of Steve Peacocke
> > > Sent: Thursday, 8 March 2001 17:27
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Referencing variable TextFile names
> > >
> > >
> > > Mark, In recent years I have forsaken the old and trusty TextFile
> variable
> > > to using TStrings. With TStrings, not only can I write to and
> read from
> > > text files in a single call, but the contents are then already placed
> into
> > > a ready made object for me to manipulate.
> > >
> > > eg:
> > >
> > > Var
> > > Stuff: TStrings;
> > > i: integer;
> > > begin
> > > Stuff := TStringList.Create;
> > > try
> > > Stuff.LoadFromFile(FileName);
> > > for i := 0 to stuff.Count - 1 do
> > > ShowMessage(Stuff[i]); // do things with the line
> > > finally
> > > stuff.free;
> > > end;
> > > end;
> > >
> > > Must easier and able to do lots of excellent things with it - for
> example,
> > > by using the Values and Names properties, I can read and
> manipulate ini
> > > files much easier than the inbuilt TIniFile object.
> > >
> > > Steve
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