Question

If you work with php you can see the php have associative array (or array width string key) in programing lang.
For example:

$server['hostname']  =  'localhost';
$server['database']  =  'test';
$server['username']  =  'root';
$server['password']  =  'password' ;    

// 2d array
$all['myserver']['hostname'] = 'localhost' ;

But can’t find any default way to use associative array in delphi.

First I want find default way with out any output component or class .
Second if really I cant find with internal way I force choose output classes only.

I use Delphi XE3 , many thanks for your help.

edit:
I found one class here : http://www.delphipages.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26334
same as php , but any better way?

Answer 1

You can use tStrings and tStringList for this purpose, but 2d arrays are out of the scope of these components.

Usage;

var
  names  : TStrings;
begin
  ...
  names := TStringList.Create;
  ...
  ...
  names.values['ABC'] := 'VALUE of ABC' ;
  ...
  ...
end ;