TStringList

Declaration

<custom> : TStringList

Description

The TStringList object is useful for storing a list of strings. Some properties of other classes return a TStringList object. You can create your own TStringList objects by declaring them in your map code.

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Usage

Among other things the following tasks can be achieved by working with a TStringList object

Determine the number of strings in the list

You can return the number of strings currently in the list with MyStringList.Count

Add a string into the list

You can add strings to the list using MyStringList.Add('this is the string to add')

Read a string from the list

You can retrieve string from the list by providing the index of the string ie MyStringList[i] where i is a number from 0 to MyStringList

Update a string in the list

You can update a string in the list with MyStringList[i] := 'this is the new string value', where i is the index of the string to update being a number from 0 to MyStringList.Count-1