[fpc-devel] Method for write string into TStreamt

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Jul 21 11:34:23 CEST 2014


In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
> > Do you think, that something similar can be added also in FPC ?
> 
> There is already a WriteAnsiString (
> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/classes/tstream.writeansistring.html
> ) with the difference that it also writes out the length. Adding an
> additional overload (especially with a name like WriteString) would IMHO be
> confusing because of this.
> 
> Nothing stops you though from writing a class helper that adds a
> WriteString method to TStream.

(Except the fact that you can only have one class helper per class?)

Maybe writebinansistring would be a good name. 



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