CONVERT FONT ATTRIBUTES TO A STRING AND VISE VERSA

Sometimes it's necessary to represent attributes of certain objects as strings. For example, if your program allows the user to change fonts and you want to save these customized font attributes in the registry, you might want to save these attributes as strings.
Following two functions will let you convert a font object's attributes into a string and then convert formatted string back into font attributes: 

const
  csfsBold      = '|Bold';
  csfsItalic    = '|Italic';
  csfsUnderline = '|Underline';
  csfsStrikeout = '|Strikeout';

//
// Expected format:
//   "Arial", 9, [Bold], [clRed]
//
procedure StringToFont(
  sFont : string; Font : TFont );
var
  p      : integer;
  sStyle : string;
begin
  with Font do
  begin
    // get font name
    p    := Pos( ',', sFont );
    Name :=
      Copy( sFont, 2, p-3 );
    Delete( sFont, 1, p );

    // get font size
    p    := Pos( ',', sFont );
    Size :=
      StrToInt( Copy( sFont, 2, p-2 ) );
    Delete( sFont, 1, p );

    // get font style
    p      := Pos( ',', sFont );
    sStyle :=
      '|' + Copy( sFont, 3, p-4 );
    Delete( sFont, 1, p );

    // get font color
    Color :=
      StringToColor(
        Copy( sFont, 3,
          Length( sFont ) - 3 ) );

    // convert str font style to
    // font style
    Style := [];

    if( Pos( csfsBold,
          sStyle ) > 0 )then
      Style := Style + [ fsBold ];

    if( Pos( csfsItalic,
          sStyle ) > 0 )then
      Style := Style + [ fsItalic ];

    if( Pos( csfsUnderline,
          sStyle ) > 0 )then
      Style := Style + [ fsUnderline ];

    if( Pos( csfsStrikeout,
          sStyle ) > 0 )then
      Style := Style + [ fsStrikeout ];
  end;
end;

//
// Output format:
//   "Aril", 9, [Bold|Italic], [clAqua]
//
function FontToString(
  Font : TFont ) : string;
var
  sStyle : string;
begin
  with Font do
  begin
    // convert font style to string
    sStyle := '';

    if( fsBold in Style )then
      sStyle := sStyle + csfsBold;

    if( fsItalic in Style )then
      sStyle := sStyle + csfsItalic;

    if( fsUnderline in Style )then
      sStyle := sStyle + csfsUnderline;

    if( fsStrikeout in Style )then
      sStyle := sStyle + csfsStrikeout;

    if( ( Length( sStyle ) > 0 ) and
        ( '|' = sStyle[ 1 ] ) )then
    begin
      sStyle :=
        Copy( sStyle, 2,
          Length( sStyle ) - 1 );
    end;

    Result := Format(
      '"%s", %d, [%s], [%s]',
      [ Name,
        Size,
        sStyle,
        ColorToString( Color ) ] );
  end;
end;

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