On 1/21/2010 06:01, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:00:27 +0100
Hans-Peter Diettrich<[email protected]> wrote:
waldo kitty schrieb:
ok... thanks for that... i was unaware that type "string" was an alias
for "ansistring"... i had thought that "string" was the same as the old
borland "string" definition (ie: array of chars with the [0] element
containing the string length) ;)
In newer Delphi versions (2009+) "string" is "UnicodeString", that's why
using "AnsiString" will reduce possible confusion of people, who use
Delphi and Lazarus concurrently.
string[n] is "ShortString", even in the new Delphi versions.
string is ansistring in lazarus sources since 10 years. I guess, most
lazarus users are used to it.
i understand but i (among others) am a new lazarus user trying to become
familiar with no real and easily read and understood documentation or books...
yes, everyone says to use a basic delphi book but even that runs into problems
when routines are different names or replaced by something else... i won't even
mention things like "use this widget from this panel" and the widget and/or
panel don't exist or are named differently... believe me, i've tried and i
cannot count the number of books i've returned because they were useless to me
when trying to learn laz/fpc :?
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