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Class_DataList
by Hiep Dam <starlabs@aol.com>
Class_DataList is similar to a container class, except that the entries in the DataList are variable-sized entities. Note that in order to use variable-sized data, the DataList requires that each entry be prefixed by a length data type. This is most useful for string-like data types - although they *don't* have to be strings. A prime example of the variable-sized data that DataList uses are pascal strings, which are a stream of chars prefixed by a length byte. Because it's only a byte, the string is limited to 255 chars. However, this need not be hard-coded. You can tell DataList what size the length prefix is, thereby setting your own string length limits. All of this makes DataList an extremely useful tool for dealing with variable-sized data.
