On Mo, 2017-09-11 at 09:22 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > 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
Used all the time without thinking about it. ;) > 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. Two intresting alternatives to look at. > No doubt there are other options still. I think so, too. My first action will be to have a deep look at the unit fpjson. Hopefully I can re-use the containers therein without any extra pushing around of data bits in memory. Thanks for showing some directions, Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
