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Read an ansistring from the stream and return its value.
Source position: classesh.inc line 888
| public function TStream.ReadAnsiString: string; | 
ReadAnsiString reads an ansistring from the stream and returns its value. This is a utility function which simply calls the read function several times. The Ansistring should be stored as 4 bytes (a DWord) representing the length of the string, and then the string value itself. The WriteAnsiString function writes an ansistring in such a format.
If the AnsiString cannot be read, a EStreamError exception will be raised.
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 | Reads data from the stream to a buffer and returns the number of bytes read. | |
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 | Write an ansistring to the stream. | |
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 | Read a byte from the stream and return its value. | |
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 | Read a word from the stream and return its value. | |
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 | Read a DWord from the stream and return its value. |