> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:16:25 -0600 > From: Stephen Posey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Telnet, Indy9, text file conversion; > To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Mick Arundell wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:22:37 -0600 <<snip out my embarrassing mistakes>>
> > fairly sure it goes like that but out of practice. > > To use Read() like that, Standard Pascal (and AFAIK Delphi) expects data > values separated by white space (Space characters, and maybe Tab > characters, haven't tried that). > > Commas are interpreted as extraneous character data that prevents > reading the values as-is. > > So, expanding your example a little, some code like: > > var > Var1, Var2, Var3: Integer; > F: TextFile; // "File" is a reserved word in Pascal > begin > AssignFile(File, 'test.txt'); > Reset(File); > ReadLn(File, Var1, Var2, Var3); > > will work with lines like: > > 10 20 30 > 100 1000 10000 > > but will choke on: > > 10,20,30 > 100, 1000, 10000 > > Now, many dialects of BASIC include a facility to read comma delimited > input using the INPUT command, which may be what you're recalling. > > > For me I'd readln then parse myself - more control and more > control I could > > get like BillG :) > > > > Not sure if you can cast a memorystream as a filestream > > be nice if you could > > TMemoryStream has LoadFromFile/SaveToFile methods which achieves a lot > of the same thing. > > Stephen Posey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Steven, Long time since I use read tend to be a real control freak and parse the whole line :) Mick _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
