>yes, this type of thing is why we use Pascal. pchar is your little bucket of ram that FPC in a sense knows nothing about. set it to #0 and pray for the best, cause that's what you do.. I'll just leave it with the #0, it doesn't seem to be hurting anything. Thanks to everyone for the help getting this to work. Here is what I ended up with if anyone is curious, or if someone comes across this doing a search. https://gist.github.com/Zaaphod/7d94e1d712a5b9ac2bcb0bc79f039a63 Also, here is my little console application I needed it for, just as a simple example on how to put the vertical column editing mode into the clipboard https://github.com/Zaaphod/Inches_To_Feet James
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