Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

Getting ready

In the good old Pascal days, there was a set of functions to handle the I/O (Assign, Reset, Rewrite, Close, and many more). Now, we have a bunch of classes. All Delphi streams inherit from TStream and can be used as the internal stream of one of the adapter classes (by adapter, I mean an implementation of the Adapter, or Wrapper, design patterns from the Gang of Four (GoF) famous book about design patterns).

There are 10 fundamental types of streams:

Class	Use
System.Classes.TBinaryWriter	Writer for binary data
System.Classes.TStreamWriter	Writer for characters to a stream
System.Classes.TStringWriter	Writer for a string
System.Classes.TTextWriter	Writer of a sequence of characters; it is an abstract ...