There are a few issues with your program.
Your first Readln reads the first line of the file into s, but you don't use this value at all. It is lost. The first time you do a Readln in the loop, you get the second line of the file (which you do print to the console using Writeln).
Your arr record type is completely meaningless in this case (and in most cases), since it is a record without any members. It cannot store any data, because it has no members.
In your loop, you expand the length of the array, one item at a time. But you don't set the new item's value to anything, so you do this in vain. (And, because of the previous point, there isn't any value to set in any case: the elements of the array are empty records that cannot contain any data.)
Increasing the length of a dynamic array one item at a time is very bad practice, because it might cause a new heap allocation each time. The entire existing array might need to be copied to a new location in your computer's memory, every time.
The contents of the loop seem to be trying to do two things: saving the current line in the array, and printing it to the console. I assume the latter is only for debugging?
Old-style Pascal I/O (text, Assign, Reset) is obsolete. It is not thread-safe, possibly slow, handles Unicode badly, etc. It was used in the 90s, but shouldn't be used today. Instead, use the facilities provided by your RTL. (In Delphi, for instance, you can use TStringList, IOUtils.TFile.ReadAllLines, streams, etc.)
A partly fixed version of the code might look like this (still using old-school Pascal I/O and the inefficient array handling):
program Project1;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
{$R *.res}
uses
System.SysUtils;
var
x: text;
arr: array of string;
begin
// Load file to string array (old and inefficient way)
AssignFile(x, 'D:\test.txt');
Reset(x);
try
while not Eof(x) do
begin
SetLength(arr, Length(arr) + 1);
Readln(x, arr[High(Arr)]);
end;
finally
CloseFile(x);
end;
Randomize;
// Print strings randomly
while True do
begin
Writeln(Arr[Random(Length(Arr))]);
Readln;
end;
end.
If you want to fix the inefficient array issue, but still not use modern classes, allocate in chunks:
program Project1;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
{$R *.res}
uses
System.SysUtils;
var
x: text;
s: string;
arr: array of string;
ActualLength: Integer;
procedure AddLineToArr(const ALine: string);
begin
if Length(arr) = ActualLength then
SetLength(arr, Round(1.5 * Length(arr)) + 1);
arr[ActualLength] := ALine;
Inc(ActualLength);
end;
begin
SetLength(arr, 1024);
ActualLength := 0; // not necessary, since a global variable is always initialized
// Load file to string array (old and inefficient way)
AssignFile(x, 'D:\test.txt');
Reset(x);
try
while not Eof(x) do
begin
Readln(x, s);
AddLineToArr(s);
end;
finally
CloseFile(x);
end;
SetLength(arr, ActualLength);
Randomize;
// Print strings randomly
while True do
begin
Writeln(Arr[Random(Length(Arr))]);
Readln;
end;
end.
But if you have access to modern classes, things get much easier. The following examples use the modern Delphi RTL:
The generic TList<T> handles efficient expansion automatically:
program Project1;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
{$R *.res}
uses
System.SysUtils, Generics.Defaults, Generics.Collections;
var
x: text;
s: string;
list: TList<string>;
begin
list := TList<string>.Create;
try
// Load file to string array (old and inefficient way)
AssignFile(x, 'D:\test.txt');
Reset(x);
try
while not Eof(x) do
begin
Readln(x, s);
list.Add(s);
end;
finally
CloseFile(x);
end;
Randomize;
// Print strings randomly
while True do
begin
Writeln(list[Random(list.Count)]);
Readln;
end;
finally
list.Free;
end;
end.
But you could simply use a TStringList:
program Project1;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
{$R *.res}
uses
System.SysUtils, Classes;
var
list: TStringList;
begin
list := TStringList.Create;
try
list.LoadFromFile('D:\test.txt');
Randomize;
// Print strings randomly
while True do
begin
Writeln(list[Random(list.Count)]);
Readln;
end;
finally
list.Free;
end;
end.
Or you could keep the array approach and use IOUtils.TFile.ReadAllLines:
program Project1;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
{$R *.res}
uses
System.SysUtils, IOUtils;
var
arr: TArray<string>;
begin
arr := TFile.ReadAllLines('D:\test.txt');
Randomize;
// Print strings randomly
while True do
begin
Writeln(arr[Random(Length(arr))]);
Readln;
end;
end.
As you can see, the modern approaches are much more convenient (less code). They are also faster and give you Unicode support.
Note: All snippets above assume that the file contains at least a single line. They will fail if this is not the case, and in real/production code, you must verify this, e.g. like
if Length(arr) = 0 then
raise Exception.Create('Array is empty.');
or
if List.Count = 0 then
raise Exception.Create('List is empty.');
before the // Print strings randomly part, which assumes that the array/list isn't empty.
