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  <pre wrap=""><!---->I fully agree with you. I would like the object oriented way of strings

also - but I stopped asking for that ;) There are a lot of advantages

over the small amount of disadvantages. Of course I dont like this one:

S := TString.Create('');

But a built in class TString that is managed by the compiler.

PS : Maybe i'm a littlebit more up to date about todays concepts of

object oriented languages - maybe because I know him personally

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Meyer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Meyer</a>

There were a lot of interesting discussions, etc...  altough I dont like

Eiffel :)

and also this guy was one of my profs:

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth</a>

greetings

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Jet another approach:<br>

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var <br>

    s:string;<br>

   intStr:TInternalStringClass absolute s;<br>

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TInternalStringClass(s).AsUTF8:='Some string';<br>

writeln('String length=',intStr.length);<br>

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TMyStingClass=class(TInternalStringClass)<br>

class function LoadFromResource(nResId:integer)<br>

end;<br>

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intStr.LoadFromResourcse(nResId);<br>

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