On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> I looked through the contributed units in the http://freepascal.org site and > did not see anything that could take an array or some other data structure and > write it to disk. Also the library would need to do the opposite, read from > disk into a data structure. > > I figure before I try and re-invent the wheel I would ask if there is any good > libraries/unit(s) like that already. Perhaps something simmilar to what Python > has on it's Picle library. > > Is the Objects unit what I am looking for? > In this url > http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/docencia/edi/freepascal/doc/user/node10.html Not really. > I foud this description. > > objects > This unit provides the base object for standard Turbo Pascal objects. It also > implements File and Memory stream objects, as well as sorted and non-sorted > collections, and string streams. > > > File and Memory stream objects > > The application I am trying to do is a database. > I want to try some concepts for doing Analytics/OLAP work and performance will > be a concern so I figure FPC would be a good tool for the job. > > >From reading this URL > http://www.learn-programming.za.net/programming_pascal_learn11.html > > I see one can write records to a file. Would that be a feasible approach? Indeed. That's why it exists :-) You can also try the Classes unit if you use object oriented programming. Each component can write itself to stream. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
