Writing to binary file

[paul.]

Ok I have only recently started with delphi and kind of got thrown in at the deep end so to speak.

I have a blank binary file that needs strings and booleans input from several lists in .txt files at a repetative address. I am not sure how to do this.

For example say the values in the namelist.txt were:

Paul
Michael
Andrew
Stacy

The output binary file needs to be something like this:

045061756C00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
074D69636861656C00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
06416E647265770000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
055374616379000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

So it tells the length of the "name" then the "name" and every 36 bytes a name is input

Would appreciate it if someone could help me do this.
Thanks a lot

[paul.]

All I can come up with is this, it allows me to write Hello every 8 bytes

var
  binString1, myString2: shortString;
  binFile : File of string[8];

begin
  AssignFile(binFile, 'Test.bin');
  ReWrite(binFile);

  binString1 := 'Hello';
  binString2 := 'Hello';
  Write(binFile, binString1, binString2);

  CloseFile(binFile);

end;

This deletes the old file and writes to a new one. Also doesnt allow me to position where the bytes are input to.

Thanks

[paul.]

Done it now nevermind thanks for reading

[Jordan]

That was fast, what was your solution?

[paul.]

It was under my nose the whole time, I just didnt realise it was compatable with binary and strings. I used TMemoryStream, which allowed me to adjust the position and then saved the memory stream to a file.