[fpc-pascal]TStringList.indexOf (case-sensitivity)

[James Mills]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:03:31PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, James Mills wrote:
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> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:39:10AM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, James Mills wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Is TStringList.indexOf case sensitive or insensitive ?
> > > > TStrings.indexOf is case insensitive, but TStringList.indexOf overrides
> > > > the TStrings.indexOf implementation accoriding to the documentation.
> > >
> > > It is case insensitive, but this was changed recently for Delphi
> > > compatibility.
> > > Older versions are case sensitive. Here are the relevant log entries:
> > >
> > > revision 1.15
> > > date: 2003/05/29 23:13:57;  author: michael;  state: Exp;  lines: +5 -2
> > > fixed case insensitivity of TStrings.IndexOf
> > > ----------------------------
> > > revision 1.14
> > > date: 2002/12/10 21:05:44;  author: michael;  state: Exp;  lines: +12 -5
> > > + IndexOfName is case insensitive
> > > ----------------------------
> >
> > Is there no other function that searches the list in a case insensitive
> > way ? I've been looking through the current FCL source and speaking to a
> > member of the list...
> 
> No. IndexOf() is meant to search the list. In D7, there is a property
> 'CaseSensitive' which determines whether the search is performed case
> sensitively or not...

I look at the source and didn't see a property like this. Maybe I'll
check again :)
So if I went, strings.CaseSensitive := True;
it'd work ?

> 
> >
> > It seems perhaps I should write a descendant of TStringList, which I've
> > done and works for my purpose.
> 
> This is always possible, that is why we have OOP.
> 
> >
> > The other query I have with TStringList, is the sqlite unit uses
> > CommaText which replaces " with "" and other side affects you don't want
> > in an IRC Services application.
> 
> Then you don't need commatext, but plain old 'text'.
> The idea of commatext is exactly that it replaces " with ""...
Well I've left the sqlite class to use commatext, but in my simple
database class have used nsiExtractQuotedStr to remove double quotes and
surrouding quotes in the string. using plain text adds extra 0A chars on
the end.

cheers
James

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> Michael.
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