Author: William Gerbert

Reading Unix ASCII files

Answer:

Do you need to read ASCII files that originate from a UNIX system? While DOS/ 
Windows environments separate lines with a #10#13 combination (^J^M), in UNIX 
systems only a #10 is inserted.

The regular Readln() does not recognize these line breaks.

A quick-and-dirty solution is loading the file into a TStringList. The 
TStringList.LoadFromFile() method will break up the lines - see below:


1   with TStringlist.Create do
2   begin
3     LoadFromFile(myfile);
4     SaveToFile(myfile);
5   end;