[fpc-pascal] Question: range checking for string indexing

Can someone confirm what range checking FreePascal does (if enabled) when indexing a string. I imagine shortstrings and ansistrings are handled differently, but cannot find this in the documentation. It looks like the following: String Type Range Checked for s[i] ---

Re: [fpc-pascal] Question: range checking for string indexing

Tom Verhoeff wrote: I am surprised that for ShortString, the range is not also 1 = i = Length(s). IIRC Turbo Pascal only allowed you to access s[0] when range checking was off, and similarly for s[i] with i Length(s). No. See transcript: -- 8 -- the program -- {$R+} var s1 : String;