Dear Sergei,
All you need is a TStringList or TList. Both got a pointer to anything you
like. Integer or TObject descendents. All you need to do is just type cast
it.
Best Regards
Leigh
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From: "Sergei Stenkov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 3:42 PM
Subject: [DUG]: Working with text files
> Hello all,
>
> I've been away from the list for a while and shifted to Sydney for a job,
so
> please forgive me if my questions repeat someone.
>
> I'm using D5 on Win 2K.
>
> The function I'm working on at the moment is supposed to export a text
file
> into Excel . When the text file is too big for one spreadsheet to
> accommodate it's content, the function will split the original text file
> into the number of files of appropriate size. After this is done it will
> export the files created one by one.
>
> The problem I have is:
>
> There is no way I could find out the possible number of text files needed
at
> design time, thus I can't have a list of variables, one for each file.
> I can't have an "array of TextFile" and load it with the files ones they
get
> created (can't have file types in array - right ?!?! )
> When I try to allocate a pointer for each file created and store it in an
> array, I get it to point to the same address always, because I only have 1
> variable space to point to (right?):
>
> Questions:
>
> How can I have an x number of text files open and dynamically get access
to
> them as needed?
> Can it be done with an array of pointers? If yes, how can I allocate those
> pointers for each file?
>
> I'm kind of "stuck" here and will appreciate any help/advise.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Sergei
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