NAME=VALUE pairs are pretty easy to use and manipulate in Delphi, for example you can easily load them into a stringlist from a txt or dat file with the TStringList's own LoadFromFile method, and of course you can also SaveToFile as well. I use this technique a lot, however for what you seem to want to do, Variables of the correct type will need to be created by your compiled program first, then this file can be loaded into a TStringList and each VALE read can then be assigned to the Variable assigned to that particular NAME. You could just as easily do this using an ini-file too. But I don't know of anyway you can actually create new variables based upon values picked up by the application at runtime.
from: Robert Meek at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dba "Tangentals Design" home of "PoBoy" freeware Windows apps and utilities located at: www.TangentalsDesign.com Proud to be a moderotor for the "Delphi Programming Lists" at: elists.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paule Ecimovic Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 4:23 AM To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List Subject: Generic way of reading a delineated list of variable values from afile and loading them into a list of variables Hi, all Does anyone know of a generic way of reading the values of a delineated list of variables from a text file and loading them into Delphi variables of the same name as occurs in the file? The file is structured according to the beginning and end of the list of variables, also known as a NAMELIST of variables, by begin_of_namelist and end_of_namelist tags. The entries of the namelist are formatted between these tags as VariableName=VariableValue, where VariableValue can be of any allowed type, whether primitive or user-defined, so long as its values can be written to a file as plain text and loaded from it accordingly. This is a perenial problem for which I wonder whether generic solutions exist. Cheers, Paule _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
