According to the online documentation for TList, if you call
Delete( itemIndex ) or Remove( item ), the item is removed from
the list AND  NIL appears in its place.  This allows the indices
for the other list items to remain constant; if you want to remove
those NILs, you call Pack, or so the documentation says.

But when I have a list and use either Remove or Delete to get rid of
the first item in the list, no NIL pointer appears; instead the
other items all are moved up in the list.

When I delete one item in the list, I DO NOT want the indices of the
others to change.

How can I get Delphi to behave in accordance with its documentation?

Thanks for any input,
Anna Haynes

p.s.  I'm using the 16bit version 1 Delphi ( I think; the
About dialog box yields a simply lovely picture, but no
information. )

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Anna Haynes      
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In article <4oap98$...@gv-gate.gvg.tek.com> a...@empress.gvg.tek.com (Anna K. Haynes) writes:

I think you will have a descend an object from tlist, which overrides &
implements the delete the way you want it.

HTH

Boris Ingram, Cyborg Software
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On Mon, 27 May 1996 08:44:59, boris...@iafrica.com (Boris Ingram)
wrote:

Just set the item to nil.
  Delete is: List[Index] := nil
  Remove is: List[IndexOf(Item)] := nil

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Anna K. Haynes <a...@empress.gvg.tek.com> wrote:

how about changing the documentation :_)

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