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Assign the text of a file to a string
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Title: assign the text of a file to a string?
function GetTextFromFile(AFile: string; var Returnstring: string): Boolean;
var
FileStream: TFileStream;
begin
Result := False;
if not FileExists(AFile) then Exit;
FileStream := TFileStream.Create(AFile, fmOpenRead);
try
if FileStream.Size 0 then
begin
SetLength(Returnstring, FileStream.Size);
FileStream.Read(Returnstring[1], FileStream.Size);
Result := True;
end;
finally
FileStream.Free;
end;
end;
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
s: string;
begin
if GetTextFromFile('c:\autoexec.bat', s) then
begin
ShowMessage(s);
// Label1.caption := s; or assign the text to a Label
// Memo1.text := s; or a memo
end;
end;
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