On Mon, 11 Sep 2017, Marc Santhoff wrote:
Hi, since I'm programming Pascal only on occasion I'd like to know: Which container class ist the easiest to use for key-value pairs? The goal is to store a configuration set from a hardware measuring device having 81 items. This item set is fixed, no change. The values are parsed from json data (text) and have to be stored in memory (for now).
You have several options. Plain TStringlist is easy to use: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/rtl/classes/tstringlist.html Inifiles contains a tstrings descendent which is optimized for name/value pairs: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/fcl/inifiles/thashedstringlist.html contnrs unit contains TFPStringHashTable: https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/fcl/contnrs/tfpstringhashtable.html TFPGMap from unit fgl can be used to create key/value map. No doubt there are other options still. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
