> > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
