It really depends on what your trying to accomplish. What your described could easily be implemented using XML. Delphi also have built in streaming system that knows how to write and read data types and objects to and from files. That is how Delphi forms are serialized and persisted to disk. The streaming system can also be extended to stream in/out custom datatypes. There are some limitations on its use but I've found that for 90% of the time its satisfies my need. There are also free, 3rd party variants of the streaming system that will stream in and out in XML. Do a search on www.tamaracka.com for streaming and XML.
Thanks, Scott __________________________________________ SoftSystem Solutions, LLC 18 Ridge Road Clark, New Jersey 07066 USA Scott Kellish, Owner Tel. +01 732 382 1873 Fax: +01 732 382 1873 Mobile: +01 732 261-5856 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________ Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paule Ecimovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Borland's Delphi Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 4:56 AM Subject: A Delphi Component that enables namelist-directed I/O > Hi, All > > After coming across very useful threads in this list on writing to and > reading from human-readable text files in structured ways, such as writing > the values of a list of variables of various types to a file containing a > string representing a given variable's name followed by a delimiter > followed by that variable's value along with the ability to extract the > information back from the corresponding file, I came to wondering whether > there is a Delphi component that does this. In the past when I have posted > to this list about this I got very useful pointers outside of Delphi, > i.e., a wrapper of a C routine for NAMELIST-like functionality, or the > tried and true yet insufficiently re-useable maxim "For best results, > advice roll-your-own". I am wondering about a plug-and-play standard > Delphi solution to this problem that I can re-use at the drop of a hat, > everywhere. > > Many thanks in advance, > > Paule > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information in this message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or any action or omission taken by you in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Please immediately contact the sender if you have received this message in error and permanently delete this message and any attachments. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
