Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 10 Feb 2011, at 16:21, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

Are there any cases where a string variable will be allocated with anything other than zero length,

In case it's a shortstring, the initial data could be anything.

or a dynamic array will be allocated with anything other than zero elements?

No.

Thanks Jonas, it was mainly the dynamic array case that I was interested in. Presumably a string defined without an explicit length is a longstring and starts empty.

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