TU> Okay, that's a complex question.  If we are talking Delphi, 
TU> particularly2.0, I have NO problems.   If we are talking Turbo 
TU> Pascal, I would
TU> have preferred null-terminated strings, but can live with the
TU> length-byte approach.  BUT, if we are talking generic Pascal, I have
TU> never been happy with the almost non-existent string handling present
TU> there.  In its purest form, it only provides for arrays of 
TU> characters,with no simple way of dealing with them as strings.  (Uh, 
TU> after looking
TU> at this a second time, I realize that I made a error here.  I am 
TU> talkingabout strings, and you were asking about text files, as was 
TU> the originalwriter.....and I was thinking about string handling.)  
TU> Actually, I have
TU> no problems with how it handles text files. 
Ok, I can agree with you on the string handling side, pascal is weak. But, it 
is quite simple to write routines that will parse or do whatever you need to 
a string so I never really worried much about that. I am sure there are a 
bunch of routines out there already if you don't want to write your own. 
Delphi seems to be pretty good though, I haven't had to much trouble finding 
what I need. 
Steve
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