Write, WriteText, Read, and ReadText Method Behavior for Line Endings and Zero Terminators
When writing to and reading from a stream object using the Write, WriteText, Read, and ReadText methods, it is important to be aware of the following behavior regarding line endings and zero byte terminators:
Write
adds a 0 byte at the end of the stream;WriteText
does not.Read
Reads until a 0 byte or the specified length of the string.ReadText
Reads the until a zero byte, an end-of-line, the specified number of bytes, or the maximum length.
To help understand this, consider the following code example. This example assumes that a BLOB field called MyBlobField
exists in a table called MyBlobTable
.
var
myInt: Integer;
MyRecord: Record MyBlobTable;
MyOutStream: OutStream;
MyInStream: InStream;
Result: Text;
CRLF: Text[2];
}
begin
MyRecord.MyBlobField.CreateOutStream(MyOutStream);
MyOutStream.WriteText('A');
MyOutStream.WriteText;
MyOutStream.WriteText('B');
MyOutStream.WriteText;
MyOutStream.WriteText('C');
MyRecord.MyBlobField.CreateInStream(MyInStream);
MyInStream.ReadText(Result); // Reads A
Message(Result);
MyInStream.ReadText(Result); // Reads B
Message(Result);
MyInStream.ReadText(Result); // Reads C
Message(Result);
MyRecord.MyBlobField.CreateInStream(MyInStream);
MyInStream.Read(Result); // Reads A\B\C
Message(Result);
CRLF[1] := 13;
CRLF[2] := 10;
MyRecord.MyBlobField.CreateOutStream(MyOutStream);
MyOutStream.Write('A' + CRLF + 'B');
MyOutStream.Write('C');
MyRecord.MyBlobField.CreateInStream(MyInStream);
MyInStream.ReadText(Result); // Reads A
Message(Result);
MyInStream.ReadText(Result); // Reads B
Message(Result);
MyInStream.ReadText(Result); // Reads C
Message(Result);
MyRecord.MyBlobField.CreateInStream(MyInStream);
MyInStream.Read(Result); // Reads A + CRLF + B
Message(Result);
MyInStream.Read(Result); // Reads C
Message(Result);
Clear(MyRecord.MyBlobField);
MyRecord.MyBlobField.CreateOutStream(MyOutStream);
MyOutStream.WriteText('A' + CRLF + 'B');
MyOutStream.WriteText('C');
MyRecord.MyBlobField.CreateInStream(MyInStream);
MyInStream.Read(Result); // Reads A + CRLF + BC
Message(Result);
MyRecord.MyBlobField.CreateInStream(MyInStream);
MyInStream.ReadText(Result); // Reads A
Message(Result);
MyInStream.ReadText(Result); // Reads BC
Message(Result);
end;
Related information
Write and WriteText Methods
Read and ReadText Methods
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