Delphi read text file string

These functions do NOT support Unicode. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. To write to a file using WriteLn, you must specify the file as the first argument: WriteLn fil, Contents[i] ; without the argument it tries to write to the console which is presumably not available in your Windows application. Improve this answer. Larry Lustig Larry Lustig 47k 13 13 gold badges 99 99 silver badges bronze badges.

I wasn't aware but am now. A whole day fiddling with that code and it was apparently staring me in the face the whole time. Works flawlessly now. Thanks for the help Larry Lustig — Flatlyn. Glad I was able to help.

Sorry for the long day! Repeating this comment here for those that do not read the question but jump straight into answers. Remy Lebeau Remy Lebeau k 29 29 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Does the TIniFile class work properly yet? I resorted to using TMemIniFile which behaves correctly, at least in my view of what correct should mean! I suppose I shouldn't really criticise like this if I don't have the exact details at hand.

This means, that a new text file will be created on the disk. If there is already a file with the same name, it will be overwritten. Write a string to the file with WriteLn. You can repeat this step as many times as you want. Finally, "close" the text file with CloseFile. So after all the information is gathered I could look at location R22, find the I am not getting the proper out put. Can anybody help on this?

I want to insert the contect into a table. Can read text on line 5 in text file? How to read a string form text file on a line you want? EX: read text on line 5 in txt file had 10 lineCan help me? And displaying them in a multiline TextBox. It works nice but when the file is loaded in. Had to use Environment. Read Excel file and write to Text txt file this is what i want do.

Please give us feedback no matter whether you get your answer. Please "mark as answer" if it's useful for youSincerely,Jerome Purpose: I want to "import a file" to an database My solution: One file upload form element Everything works fine Read text or document file for pick up Email address in that file? Dear vb. Reading Text Files How can I display the contents of a text file on a page? Thanks, - Mike Label1. And in the second method If a number value exceeds the capacity of the variable, it is cast to the variable without raising an exception.

When reading for strings or characters, a ReadLn must be performed when Eoln end of the line is reached.

Otherwise, subsequent Read calls repeatedly return a null value. For binary files, data values Value1, Value2 etc, are read from the data the file.

If the file given by FileHandle is a typed file one defined to contained defined records , then these values must be of the same type record. You cannot use Read to read from an untyped binary file one declared as File with no following of type.