a pointer is - after all - just an integer. See http://delphi.cjcsoft.net/viewthread.php?tid=44049
Instead of TStringLIst use a SQLite (open source) in-memory table to store your data. The table can be indexed and searched using function Locate with option loPartialKey. Just my 2c Peppe 2017-05-15 14:19 GMT+02:00 Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de>: > Am 2017-05-15 um 13:14 schrieb Torsten Bonde Christiansen: >> however I was hoping someone might know of an implementation that works >> more or less out of the box. > > To me it was very seldom that an existing solution > severed all my needs. Either not all requirements were > complied from the beginning or, even worse, I invested time > using an existing "solution" only to find out much later > that some detail does not work so I had to write my own solution anyway. > I wasted time in understanding an (often poorly > documented) existing routine, fighting with bugs in it > and then had to write it more or less from cratch anyway. > > If I understand your requirements correctly it should not be > too much work to write your own solution. > You would also have the freedom to exactly adapt it to your needs > without fiddling with parameters and adjustments of an existing > library which are superfluous for your purpose. > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
