[Lazarus] What is the revision number of release 0.9.26.2?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hello:

I am astonished. It breaks my heart,  I am crying: Nobody has even 
mentioned the old-fashion classic Pascal way for reading a text file. 
Traitors. ;-)

Loading a text file in a TStringList with LoadFromFile method is a good 
option, it is easy, it is simple and you can access to any line whenever 
you want. But, Why to load the whole file in memory if you only need to 
process  the lines sequentially from the beginning to the end 
(particularly if it is a big file)?

Procedure ReadThisFile(FileName:string);
var
 f:TextFile;
 OneLine:string;
begin
 assignFile(f,FileName);
 reset(f);
 while not eof(f) do begin
    readln(f,OneLine);
    // do whatever you want with OneLine, for example write it on the output
    writeln(OneLine);
 closefile(f);
end;

PD:  well, at least Borland Pascal way. I think standard Pascal uses 
"text", "assign" and "close" instead of TextFile", "AssignFile" and 
"Closefile"

Santiago A.