[fpc-devel] Delphi new AnsiStrings are incredibly broken :-(

[Paul Ishenin]

14.10.2011 20:23, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Apart from the mentioned implementation flaws, I came across severe 
> problems with the new AnsiString *model* in general. Let's play around 
> with the Pos() function, which certainly is an inevitable part of any 
> stringhandling.
>
> A general function
>  function Pos(SubStr: T1; Str: T2): integer;
> should return the character index of SubStr in Str, i.e. Str[i] should 
> definitely be the begin of SubStr within Str.
Just think of Pos() as it only compares bytes. AnsiPos() should care 
about encoding too. As I remember AnsiPos() has AnsiString arguments 
instead of RawByteString and therefore the conversion will be made 
before the byte compare.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.