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Type	Name	Summary

Type	AnsiChar	A character type guaranteed to be 8 bits in size
Type	AnsiString	A data type that holds a string of AnsiChars
Keyword	Array	A data type holding indexable collections of data
Type	Boolean	Allows just True and False values
Type	Byte	An integer type supporting values 0 to 255
Type	Cardinal	The basic unsigned integer type
Type	Char	Variable type holding a single character
Keyword	Class	Starts the declaration of a type of object class
Type	Comp	A 64 bit signed integer
Type	Currency	A decimal type with 4 decimal points used for financial values
Type	Double	A floating point type supporting about 15 digits of precision
Type	Extended	The floating point type with the highest capacity and precision
Keyword	File	Defines a typed or untyped file
Type	Int64	A 64 bit sized integer - the largest in Delphi
Type	Integer	The basic Integer type
Type	LongInt	An Integer whose size is guaranteed to be 32 bits
Type	LongWord	A 32 bit unsigned integer
Type	PAnsiChar	A pointer to an AnsiChar value
Type	PAnsiString	Pointer to an AnsiString value
Type	PChar	A pointer to an Char value
Type	PCurrency	Pointer to a Currency value
Type	PDateTime	Pointer to a TDateTime value
Type	PExtended	Pointer to a Extended floating point value
Type	PInt64	Pointer to an Int64 value
Type	Pointer	Defines a general use Pointer to any memory based data
Type	PShortString	A pointer to an ShortString value
Type	PString	Pointer to a String value
Type	PVariant	Pointer to a Variant value
Type	PWideChar	Pointer to a WideChar
Type	PWideString	Pointer to a WideString value
Type	Real	A floating point type supporting about 15 digits of precision
Type	Real48	The floating point type with the highest capacity and precision
Keyword	Record	A structured data type - holding fields of data
Type	ShortInt	An integer type supporting values -128 to 127
Type	ShortString	Defines a string of up to 255 characters
Type	Single	The smallest capacity and precision floating point type
Type	SmallInt	An Integer type supporting values from -32768 to 32767
Type	String	A data type that holds a string of characters
Variable	TConvFamily	Defines a family of measurement types as used by Convert
Type	TConvType	Defines a measurement type as used by Convert
Type	TDateTime	Data type holding a date and time value
Type	Text	Defines a file as a text file
Type	TextFile	Declares a file type for storing lines of text
Type	TFloatFormat	Formats for use in floating point number display functions
Type	TFormatSettings	A record for holding locale values for thread-safe functions
Type	TObject	The base class type that is ancestor to all other classes
Type	TPoint	Holds X and Y integer values
Type	TRect	Holds rectangle coordinate values
Type	TReplaceFlags	Defines options for the StringReplace routine
Type	TSearchRec	Record used to hold data for FindFirst and FindNext
Type	TSysCharSet	Characters used by supplied string parsing functions
Type	TThreadFunc	Defines the function to be called by BeginThread
Type	Variant	A variable type that can hold changing data types
Type	WideChar	Variable type holding a single International character
Type	WideString	A data type that holds a string of WideChars
Type	Word	An integer type supporting values 0 to 65535

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