Re: How to copy an object?

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From: Mike Williams (TeamB)
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:36

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On 24 Nov 2002, "Frank. C." <gcherem@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote:

> How do I create copy of an existing object?
> 
> var
>   NewObject: TObject;
> 
>   NewObject <- copy of ExistingObject

The normal technique is for the class to have an assign method that does a 
field by field copy.  Therefore, the syntax would be:

NewObject := tSomeObject.Create;
NewObject.Assign(ExistingObject);

The reason there's no automatic way of copying an object is that there are 
different types of copies, i.e, deep vs shallow copies.

-- 
-Mike

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