On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal wrote:
On Oct 5, 2020, at 3:23 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
So I think you're looking at 6 or even 8 versions of this hypothetical
function...
Ouch. :)
I'm sure this code already exists in the RTL though, right? I assume it's
part of some classes like TStringList and we can just pull it up into a
collection of functions which are easily searchable in the RTL docs.
Using TStringList would be a mistake, since it will parse your file while
there is no need.
No, I think that if you want this, it must be built from the basic calls.
If not what is lowest level cross-platform layer which already exists and
can we build up from? Maybe the "TextFile" type helps us? (I know it's
ancient and I've never used it before honestly).
I don't think that would be a good strategy.
A simple filecreate, allocate buffer, fileread, fileclose will probably be
easiest.
Michael.
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