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Thanks! good answer. &nbsp;Having looked at the Source for TThreadList, Ive created a simple TThreadString class which uses the same locking mechanism, a &quot;TRTLCriticalSection&quot;, and its associated methods.<br />

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Thanks! good answer.  Having looked at the Source for TThreadList, Ive created a simple TThreadString class which uses the same locking mechanism, a "TRTLCriticalSection", and its associated methods.


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easy one. &nbsp;are strings (and other simple types) thread safe?<br />
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if I have a global string variable defined, and two threads reading/writing it, is it safe? &nbsp;or do I need to make up a thread safe string (similar to a Thread safe list - TThreadList) 
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easy one.  are strings (and other simple types) thread safe?

if I have a global string variable defined, and two threads reading/writing it, is it safe?  or do I need to make up a thread safe string (similar to a Thread safe list - TThreadList) 

Thread safe? or not?

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