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Packing Up Your Toolbox

There are many simple everyday programming skills that every Delphi developer needs to have. Pack your everyday programmer toolbox with everything you will need for simple things such as file input/output and more complex ones such as working with JSON and XML. These techniques are all part of the Delphi Runtime Library (RTL), a very large collection of core functions and classes that don’t involve the user interface and generally work on all target platforms.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Working with files and streams
  • Working with JSON
  • Working with XML

The objective of this chapter is to become fluent in using Delphi programming through useful techniques such as working with files, streams, JSON, ...

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