> On Jan 18, 2026, at 1:51 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is what I mean by a special string: > https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Extraordinary_String_Animals
In case anyone had as much difficulty parsing this whimsical document as I did, here's the upshot with decidedly less of the fun: * VARPTR(A$) returns the address of a three-byte structure describing A$ * Byte 0 is the length of A$ * Bytes 1 and 2 are the LSB / MSB pair of a pointer to A$ 's contents * This data can be POKEd at to retarget strings to arbitrary memory contents, up to 255 bytes in length
