I tried this out today on FPC fixes_3_0 and was surprised to see it worked:
type
StringHelper = record helper for string
private
function GetLength: Integer;
procedure SetLength(Value: Integer);
function GetIsEmpty: Boolean;
function GetIsWhitespace: Boolean;
public
function BeginsWith(const S: string): Boolean;
function EndsWith(const S: string): Boolean;
function Trim: string;
property Length: Integer read GetLength write SetLength;
property IsEmpty: Boolean read GetIsEmpty;
property IsWhitespace: Boolean read GetIsWhitespace;
end;
I love this and would like to know if this is going to be an officially
supported feature and can I depend on it to work going forward?
I wrote a string library which is maybe 10x faster for searching,
replacing, trimming strings than the default RTL functions and was
considering moving them and other add-ons to record helper properties and
methods as above.
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