On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Jeff Steinkamp wrote:

> Thanks to all who replied to my question about the run file size.  Have take
> most of the suggestions and parried the file down to about 2 meg while I
> continue to develop this package.  Once I get it working correctly I'll get
> rid of the rest of the stuff.
> 
> Environment variables -- How do I use one of these, such as $HOME.  Since $ is
> usually reserved to indicate a HEX number, is there another method to do this?

Sysutils unit, GetenvironmentVariable() function:

Var
  S : String;

begin
  Home:=GetenvironmentVariable('HOME');
end;



> 
> String List:  Borland had a "nasty feature" that would always use the space or
> tab as a field delimiter even though you mulled out the quote character and
> set the delimiter to a comma for instance.    Made it quite difficult to use a
> CSV string. Is this same "feature" in Lazarus?

Yes, since it's Delphi compatible...

Michael.

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