> Forgive me if I'm saying BS but it's been about 10 years since I > programmed in TurboPascal (and used ShortStrings), but don't > ShortStrings use the size they are declared with? And 255 is just > default size (if no size is specified)?
The shortstring type does, but you can use a pointer to a shortstring which is sort of like a pointer to a character array. You can allocate your own memory. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
