On reflection my reply was misleading, or even downright wrong... :-}
StrAlloc and StrNew _in particular_ are in decline, because in the cases
where you want to have a few of bytes preceeding the string to hold string
length information you're better off using an AnsiString - that's what they
do best. So when you want to create a PChar explicitly, you'll almost never
want the extra overhead of those four bytes of length information, and
consequently you should use GetMem/FreeMem.
Cheers,
Carl
>> From: Colin Fraser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Is StrAlloc and StrDispose the way to go, or is GetMem and FreeMem
>> fine... or doesn't it matter???
>
> From: Carl Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I think the reason StrAlloc is marked as being in decline is just that
> explicit creation of PChars is in decline. That's because you can now use
> pascal strings (string or AnsiString) in most cases, use SetLength, and
pass
> PChar(MyString) as needed. But when you do need to create PChars, either
> StrAlloc or GetMem will do.
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