TStringList CommaText, Values

[BubikolRamios]

If I would go and input regex containing '='
like:

MenuItem.CommaText := '^=.*?$=true,....';

would that work:

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1. program TStringList_name-value_pairsFTW;
2.  
3. uses
4.   classes;
5.  
6. var
7.   MenuItem : TStringList;
8.   i : integer;
9.  
10. begin
11.   MenuItem := TStringList.Create;
12.   MenuItem.CommaText := 'Chicken=5,Beef=7,Cheese=9';
13.      
14.   for i := 0 to 2 do
15.     writeln(MenuItem.Names[i],' : ',MenuItem.Values[MenuItem.Names[i]],' Dollars');
16.   MenuItem.Free;
17.  
18.  
19.  

Probably not, how to then push 1D array to TstringList ? Or any other idea how to put into memory data pairs like:

"^=.*?$"."true"
"^sda"."false"
...

Creating and then resizing dynamic 2D array each time adding new item seems ugly.

[mangakissa]

use values[] or names[]. See https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/classes/tstrings.values.html

[TRon]

If I would go and input regex containing '='  like:
...
would that work:

No, that would not work with commatext.

Use property delimitedtext instead, as that is more flexible.

Or, as indicated by mangakissa, use the values property or use default method of Add to create/assign your (custom) name-value pairs.