TStrings

A TStrings is a datatype that can hold an arbitrary length list of strings. The strings in a TStrings are accessible as concatenated plain text or as a series of strings.

Inheritance

• TObject - Base class of all classes.
  • TPersistent - Base class for streaming system and persistent properties - IFPObserved interface implemented by an object that can be observed.
    • TStrings - Class to manage arrays or collections of strings

Basic functionality:

Methods

Add() - add a string to the list

AddStrings() - Add contents of another stringlist to this list.

Assign() - Assign the contents of another stringlist to this one.

Clear() - Removes all strings and associated objects from the list.

IndexOf() - Find a string in the list and return its position.

IndexOfName()- Finds the index of a name in the name-value pairs.

Insert() - Insert a string in the list.

LoadFromFile() - Load the contents of a file as a series of strings.

LoadFromStream() - Load the contents of a stream as a series of strings.

SaveToFile() - Save the contents of the list to a file.

SaveToStream() - Save the contents of the string to a stream.

GetNameValue() - Return both name and value of a name,value pair based on it's index.

ExtractName() - Extract the name part of a string

properties

TextLineBreakStyle - Determines which line breaks to use in the Text property

Delimiter - Delimiter character used in DelimitedText.

DelimitedText - Get or set all strings in the list in a delimited form.

StrictDelimiter - Should only the delimiter character be considered a delimiter

QuoteChar - Quote character used in DelimitedText.

NameValueSeparator - Value of the character used to separate name,value pairs

ValueFromIndex - Return the value part of a string based on it's index.

Capacity - Capacity of the list, i.e. number of strings that the list can currently hold before it tries to expand.

CommaText - Contents of the list as a comma-separated string.

Count - Number of strings in the list.

Names - Name parts of the name-value pairs in the list.

Objects - Indexed access to the objects associated with the strings in the list.

Values - Value parts of the name-value pairs in the list.

Strings - Indexed access to the strings in the list.

Text - Contents of the list as one big string.

See also

• TStrings doc
• TStringList
• TStringList-TStrings Tutorial