[Lazarus] Tool to convert a multiline text to a pascal string constant

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2016, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:08:12AM +0100, Michalis Kamburelis wrote:
>> Hm, I admit I simply didn't know about them long time ago, when creating
>> file_to_pascal_xxx utilities in PasDoc:)
>>
>> Looking at them now:
>>
>> 1. They both have quite longer code than our simple
>> file_to_pascal_string.dpr / file_to_pascal_data.dpr...
>>
>>   In particular data2inc wants to do much more (being able to process a
>> special file format like data2inc.exm). Although it can do the simple
>> thing when invoked with -b option.
>
> Data2inc is the result of integration of several such programs and is quite
> old (late nineties) because they shared many routines (this was all before
> strutils and hex/bin/oct functionality in inttostr etc existed). Yes the
> bulk of the code is for other things, but I always used it for the straight
> case.
>
> IIRC Michael didn't know it, so he wrote bin2obj.

Exactly.

Michael.