Am Mittwoch, den 26.09.2007, 13:24 +0200 schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> > > On 26 Sep 2007, at 11:56, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> > > ansistring rather than for shortstring. Separately from that there is
> > > also a type called "longstring" which is basically a shortstring but
> > > with a 4 byte length field. It's this longstring which has not been
> > > implemented properly.
> > >
> > > Ansistrings (and thus {$longstrings on}) work fine.
> >
> > Ah, okay. The Fog is lifting fastly. :)
> >
> > And AnsiStrings are pretty much compatible to C's char*. Very handy.
>
> Yes, though ansistrings may contain #0's.
Interesting, how will a cast handle this case?
Will it change the intermediate #0 to something else or will the
resulting pchars be cut at first occurrence?
I'd never use #0 in the middle of a string myself, but to be sure if a
user manages to do so ...
Marc
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