On 01/07/2014 01:05 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
This is a mistake. You should use TByteArray for that. "Old" pre-unicode Delphi also handles this type.
Of course I do know that this sometimes is recommended, but (with pre-Unicode Delphi) I don't see any point in not using "String", which is a lot more handy providing easy to use concatenation, search operation, etc.
With a new string type this would come for free, as it requires the same behavior as the "locale based 1 Byte ANSI String" encoding variant, which is necessary to be supported anyway.
Thus, IMHO, a discussion about TByteArray is pointless -Michael _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel