> > But I mean if you are doing things at different times in the program:
> >
> > for i := 1 to 1000
> > DoSomestuff
> > s:= string + string;
> > DoOtherStuff
> > s:= string + string;
> >
> > in other words.. not one big concatenation at once such as:
> >
> > string.concatenate(string1, string2, string3, string4);
> >
> > The only way I saw it possible in my mind was through a special string
buffer
> > type (or hey, even a stringbuffer class if not a true system type).
> >
> > With TStrings.concatenate did you mean an all at once concatenation?
>
> All strings in the list are concatenated in one step, regardless of
> when they were added to the list:
>
> Sl:=TStringList.Create;
> for i := 1 to 10000000 do
> begin
> DoSomestuff;
> SL.Add(SomeString);
> DoOtherStuff;
> SL.Add(SomeOtherString);
> end;
> Result:=SL.Concatenate; // This can be optimized to 1 getmem call.
>
> Michael.
I suppose this is sort of like SetTextBuff for stringlist :)
And how about if you don't have any line delimiter? i.e. a string buffer with no
CRLF or LF.. does the TStrings type allow to disable the line delimiter?
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