TMemoryStream Class

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Unit[]

Classes Unit

Hierarchy[]

System.TObject < Classes.TStream < Classes.TCustomMemoryStream

Description[]

TMemoryStream is descendant of TStream class for manipulating data in memory. This class introduce read-only property called Memory which is pointer type so you can get direct access to memory maintained by TMemoryStream.

Technical Comments[]

(Known issues / Documentation clarifications / Things to be aware of)

Examples[]

Load data from file to memory

 procedure LoadFromFileToMem(const filename:string; memStream:TMemoryStream);
 var afileStream:TFileStream;
 begin
   afileStream:=TFileStream.Create(filename,fmOpenRead);
   try
     memStream.CopyFrom(afileStream);
   finally
     afileStream.Free;
   end;
 end;

 ...
 var 
   memStream:TMemoryStream;
 ...
 memStream:=TMemoryStream.Create;
 try
   LoadFromFileToMem('C\my file.dat',memStream);  
 finally
   memStream.Free;
 end;


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