I am reading and writing data from a file using a filestream but am having a problem reading strings from my file.
In a test VCL form program I have written:
procedure tform1.ReadfromFile4;
var
fs: TFileStream;
arrayString: Array of String;
i, Len1 : Cardinal;
// s : string;
begin
fs := TFileStream.Create('C:\Users\Joe\Documents\Delphi\Streamtest.tst',
fmOpenRead or fmShareDenyWrite);
Memo1.lines.clear;
try
fs.ReadBuffer(Len1, SizeOf(Len1));
SetLength(arrayString, Len1);
FOR i := 0 to Len1-1 do begin
fs.ReadBuffer(Len1, SizeOf(Len1));
SetLength(arrayString[i], Len1);
Fs.ReadBuffer(arrayString[i], Len1);
memo1.lines.add (arrayString[i]);
end;
finally
fs.free;
end;
end;
procedure tform1.WriteToFile4;
var
fs: TFileStream;
arrayString: Array of String;
Len1, c, i: Cardinal;
begin
Memo1.lines.clear;
SetLength(arrayString, 4);
arrayString[0] := 'First string in this Array';
arrayString[1] := 'the Second Array string';
arrayString[2] := 'String number three of this Array';
arrayString[3] := 'this is the fourth String';
fs := TFileStream.Create('C:\Users\Joe\Documents\Delphi\Streamtest.tst',
fmCreate or fmOpenWrite or fmShareDenyWrite);
try
c := Length(arrayString);
Fs.WriteBuffer(c, SizeOf(c));
for i := 0 to c-1 do begin
Len1 := Length(arrayString[i]);
fs.WriteBuffer(Len1, SizeOf(Len1));
if Len1 > 0 then begin
fs.WriteBuffer(arrayString[i], Len1);
end;
end;
finally
fs.free;
end;
end;
The Save button action enters the four strings correctly, but the Load button (readFromFile4) fails to load the strings from the file. Using the Watch list, I find that the string lengths are set correctly for each string, but the data accessed is not the correct string values. I believe I am faithfully following the instructions on the website : http://www.angelfire.com/hi5/delphizeus/customfiles.html]1 in the section titled
Writing and Reading Dynamic Arrays of Non-Fixed Size Variables
Can anyone shed light on why this does not read the strings from the file correctly?