Save String Variable Contents to a File

Saves the contents of a string variable to a text file.

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uses
    Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
    Dialogs, StdCtrls,
    CHILKATFILEACCESSLib_TLB,
    OleCtrls;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
fac: TCkFileAccess;
fileText: String;
bIncludePreamble: Integer;
success: Integer;

begin
fac := TCkFileAccess.Create(Self);

fileText := 'Hello World!';

//  Saves a string to a text file.
//  The 3rd arg specifies the character encoding used for
//  the contents of the text file.
//  The last arg only applies when saving text using the
//  utf-8 or Unicode character encodings. If 1,
//  the preamble is included (a.k.a. BOM).
bIncludePreamble := 0;

success := fac.WriteEntireTextFile('helloWorld.txt',fileText,'ansi',bIncludePreamble);
if (success = 1) then
  begin
    ShowMessage('Success!');
  end
else
  begin
  end;
end;