[fpc-pascal] Seek with text file

[James Richters]

For my use, it seems to work very well.  I am creating a file where it pretty much appends a new entry to the end of a file,  but occasionally the process needs to over-write the previous entry.  This TStringlist is indeed very easy to work with this Tstringlist, especially since I was given an example, Thanks Anthony!   For this process I need to write the file out for every entry, but I can think of some other places I could use this and just build the entire file in the TStringList and just write it all out once I'm done.

Sometimes I need to remember I have GB of ram now, and everything doesn't have to fit in a few K of ram anymore 😊 

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From: fpc-pascal [mailto:fpc-pascal-bounces at lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Rik van Kekem
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2018 8:17 AM
To: fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Seek with text file

Op 03-04-2018 13:58 schreef James Richters:
> Thank you for the advice and for the example. I don't know what is considered a large file.. these files can be maybe about 1000 lines long, most will be less, would this solution be suitable for files of this size?
> 
> Is Tstringlist something like an array of strings?

Yes, TStringList is a TList with strings.
Internally it's indeed an array of strings.

 From the code-snippet from Anthony you can see it's really easy to use.

1000 lines of about average 70 characters per lines would be 72*1000=70MB. For current computers with memory in the GB this is not large at all. TStringList would also be fast to read individual files.

If you however would need to do this for say 2000 files in a row, it could become slow and you would need to code it differently to make it more efficient. But for just a few individual files this is the easiest method.

Rik
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