Following up a post on Thu, 27 Nov 2014, from mark lewis to Robert Wolfe:   
      
    ml> a little further and use a tstringlist instead... mainly because   
    ml> tstrings is designed to be inherited by other objects whch perform   
    ml> specialized tasks... tstringlist is one such object...   
      
   oh my... i can't believe i said that...   
      
   to clarify... the program i returned to you uses classes... above i used the   
   term "object" which is wrong in this case... i should have said "class"...   
   objects are something else but they may operate in similar fashions...   
      
   what's the difference between a class and an object? the main thing is that   
   objects live on the stack whereas classes live in the heap... there's a whole   
   lot more heap space than there is stack space... in a lot of today's world,   
   classes are preferred over objects... likely because of this particular   
   aspect...   
      
   aside from that, one can think of classes and objects in the same way... both   
   carry the code needed to access the data they contain...   
      
   finally, close inspection of the documentation will show that the TStringList   
   is derived from TStrings which is derived from TPersistent which is derived   
   from TObject ;)   
      
   PS: if you want the list of filenames sorted without case sensitivity, add   
      
     DirList.CaseSensitive := False;   
      
   after   
      
     DirList.Sorted := True;   
      
   )   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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