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Question: Is it possible to re-size arrays at runtime? Answer: I came across an exampleof how to do one. The author is BenLicht, who has come up with a brilliant

Question: How can I create a generic procedure that will load data from a table intoTListBox? Answer: Actually, this tip pertains to any control that has a property such as

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Question: I want to convert an integer into a string. Is there anything in Java similar to the itoa() function in C? Answer: To convert a number (or in fact,

Question: I work with large blobs and I would like that when I accessed them in the TDBMemo window they showed theyr final portion instead of their beginning. Is it

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Question: I have a simple editor unit with a TMemo component whose text I want tosend to the printer. How can I do this? Answer: This is actually much easier

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Question: Is there a SQL equivalent to Delphi’s Pos() function? Answer: You bet. It’s called the SUBSTRING function. Like the Pos function,the SUBSTRINGfunction in SQL will return a substring of

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Question: I want to display a scrolling list of items from a database: product | description | manu | expiration | product | description | manu | expiration | product

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