FInd duplicate array and a quick way to search item per line on file??

[user]

For example I have an sorted array.
array[0]=1
array[1]=3
array[2]=2
array[3]=2
array[4]=4

First,
I use binary search to find an item. I found array[2]. I want to find duplicate item from the array, so I check the next index, if the value of next index doesn't match with array[2], it mean no duplicate item found. Am in right way to find duplicate item?

Second,
I got the duplicate items : array[2] and array[3]. I store them in new array or maybe in stringlist.
I have file contain :
aa
bb
cc
dd
ee

Now, I want to get the value of third line from the file (third line = array[2]). I want to get the value of forth line from the file (forth line = array[3]). The point is I want to retrieve the value from line based on index of duplicate array.

How to do this properly? I don't want to load all lines to stringlist to get the index, because if I have >5000 lines, the memory consumption will large.

Thanks.

[s.h.a.r.k]

Your first example is not sorted! But if it would be sorted then you're right.

-- EDIT
You can use AssignFile(), Reset(), Seek() and Readln to get a special line of a file.

[user]

Zitat von s.h.a.r.k:

Your first example is not sorted! But if it would be sorted then you're right.

-- EDIT
You can use AssignFile(), Reset(), Seek() and Readln to get a special line of a file.

Ups sorry!

Okey, I'll try. I have to check again that "AssignFile" doesn't load the file into memory. Thanks.

[SirThornberry]

if each line of your file has the same length you can calculate at which position the data is.
To access the file a prefer TFileStream

[p80286]

Zitat von user:

For example I have an sorted array.
array[0]=1
array[1]=3
array[2]=2
array[3]=2
array[4]=4

First,
I use binary search to find an item. I found array[2]. I want to find duplicate item from the array, so I check the next index, if the value of next index doesn't match with array[2], it mean no duplicate item found. Am in right way to find duplicate item?

No that is not shure. if You are looking for "2" you might find array[2] or array[3]!
so you have to check the previous and the next index(s).

Greetings
K-H