On 10 Feb 2011, at 17:04, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Presumably a string defined without an explicit length is a longstring
Only in case of {$h+} (which is the default in Delphi mode, but not in other
modes).
> and starts empty.
Yes.
Jonas___
fpc
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 t
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
> Are there any cases where a string variable will be allocated with
> anything other than zero length, or a dynamic array will be allocated
> with anything other than zero elements?
Global string variables can be initialized.
var x : ansistring
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
element
Are there any cases where a string variable will be allocated with
anything other than zero length, or a dynamic array will be allocated
with anything other than zero elements?
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