Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Taken from Delphi 7 help:
Mixing Delphi strings and null-terminated strings
* You can also use Pointer(S) to cast a long string to an untyped
pointer. But if S is empty, the typecast returns nil.
* PChar(S) always returns a pointer to a memory block; if S is empty, a
pointer to #0 is returned.
Thanks, that is very ugly. That means that PChar(Pointer(MyStr)) is not
the same as PChar(MyStr) which is not very pascalish IMHO, but ok.
I can understand that PChar(MyStr) to always return a valid pointer is a
desirable property of course, but why not use a function instead that
does this ? Useless question, of course.
Micha
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