Also StrPCopy will take the contents of an existing PChar and put it in an AnsiString… And sometimes I have regular pascal strings I want to pass to something as a Pchar, so then I do: Pchar(AnsiString(mystring)); But lately I’ve been just making all strings AnsiStrings anyway. James
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