Re: [fpc-pascal] Unit/library for writing data structures to files

2008-08-10 Thread Francisco Reyes
David W Noon writes: Incidentally, from your first message in this thread, you said you were writing an OLAP application. You might care to look at PostgreSQL as a database manager. It does rather nice OLAP functionality, straight out of the box -- and it's free. Somewhat offtopic... Im a full

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal equivalent to split/explode commands?

2008-08-10 Thread leledumbo
Francisco Reyes-2 wrote: > > I will be reading a delimited file, usually tabs, and want to parse it > into > variables or some form of array. > You can use TStringList for that purpose. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Pascal-equivalent-to-split-explode-commands--tp189

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unit/library for writing data structures to files

2008-08-10 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 16:51 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt writes: > > > You can also try the Classes unit if you use object oriented programming. > > Each component can write itself to stream. > > Played a little bit with the Classes unit. > Don't really see any benefit ove

[fpc-pascal] Pascal equivalent to split/explode commands?

2008-08-10 Thread Francisco Reyes
Is there anything simmilar to the functions other languages have split/explode? I will be reading a delimited file, usually tabs, and want to parse it into variables or some form of array. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org h

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unit/library for writing data structures to files

2008-08-10 Thread Francisco Reyes
Michael Van Canneyt writes: You can also try the Classes unit if you use object oriented programming. Each component can write itself to stream. Played a little bit with the Classes unit. Don't really see any benefit over justin writing records directly. Am I missing something? Also when read

Re: [fpc-pascal] Access inherited^2

2008-08-10 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! Am Sonntag, den 10.08.2008, 10:01 +0200 schrieb Vincent Snijders: > Johann Glaser schreef: > > Hi! > > > > How can I access an inherited inherited method which was overloaded? > > Try the following, mark the constructors as overloaded: > > > > == Example: == > > > > {$mode objfpc}{

Re: [fpc-pascal] Unit/library for writing data structures to files

2008-08-10 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
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 d

Re: [fpc-pascal] Access inherited^2

2008-08-10 Thread Vincent Snijders
Johann Glaser schreef: Hi! How can I access an inherited inherited method which was overloaded? Try the following, mark the constructors as overloaded: == Example: == {$mode objfpc}{$H+} Program TestInherited; Uses Classes, SysUtils; Type TFirst = class Constructor Create(A,