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TStringLists - easy

Hi a couple of quick Q's about TStringLists...

looking @ http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/RTL.asp?Name=TStringList

"Capacity property
Set or get the current capacity of the string list. You would manage this capacity for performance reasons. "

how & why - example please I would like to speed this up as much as possible and reduce memory use

also

If i have two StringList's and I go stringList1:= stringlist2; I have found that the contents of the list is lost ? is there a simple way to transfer between lists without itinerating?

David

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esoftbg

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esoftbg

In your case:
stringList1.Assign(stringlist2);

DavidBirch2dotCom

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Thanks esoftbg, thats that one, how do you use the capacity property?

esoftbg

To be honest, I never did use the capacity property .... I just did read the help about this property, but you probably did read it too, so .... May be someone else have an opinion about ....

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zion29

Using "insert" instead of "add" does a major speed increase if working with alot of items.

st.Insert(st.count, 'item');

is alot faster than

st.Add('item');

which does the same thing. Weird huh ^^

zion29

nm, seems not to be the case in the newer versions of Delphi.

Just ignore me ^^

DavidBirch2dotCom

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Thanks all