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# TStringCollection

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Collection of pascal strings.

## Declaration

Source position: objects.pp line 448

`type TStringCollection = object(TSortedCollection)`
`function GetItem(); virtual;` |  | Get string from the stream.
`function Compare(); virtual;` |  | Compare two strings in the collection.
`procedure FreeItem(); virtual;` |  | Dispose a string in the collection from memory.
`procedure PutItem(); virtual;` |  | Write a string to the stream.
`end;`

## Inheritance

`TStringCollection` |  | Collection of pascal strings.
`TSortedCollection` |  | Abstract sorted collection.
`TCollection` |  | Manage a collection of pointers of objects
`TObject` |  | Basis of all objects

## Description

The TStringCollection object manages a sorted collection of pascal strings. To this end, it overrides the Compare method of TSortedCollection, and it introduces methods to read/write strings from a stream.

Documentation generated on: Feb 26 2014