[fpc-pascal] Re: SDFDataset users!?

[Roberto P.]

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> I have not seen any evidence that it has ever been used other than for CSV,
> but I may be wrong. So I suspect that this should be acceptable.
>
>

>From a simple and unexperienced user point of view, the many times I
used the SDF dataset were only to load a CSV into a TMemDataset or
similar for further computing.
I found it simpler than CSVDocument (which anyway I discovered later)
because I can setup everything in the form designer and I only have to
change che filename I need at runtime. A simple call to
copyfromdataset will then copy the real data to the working dataset.
Finally, when everything is done, I use a TCSVExporter (also
completely filled in at design time and bound to the working dataset)
by calling its Execute method.

Very selfishly, If you drop the fixed length support, I won't notice
it; while if you rename the TSDFDataset to a TCSVDataset, then I have
to tweak & rebuild a few bit-tons of code.

R#

>
> Michael.
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