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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