[fpc-pascal]Strings vs. Ansistrings

[Carlo Kok]

I don't know if it is the same as in delphi, but in delphi, you can not save
Ansistrings directly to a file, because ansistring is a pointer. that's why
you receive garbage. You can save an ansi string like this:
var
  l: Longint
begin
  L := Length(MyAnsiString);
  BlockWrite(f, l, sizeof(L));
  BlockWrite(f, MyAnsiString[1], L);
end;
  and read it like this:
var
  l: Longint;
begin
  BlockRead(f, L, sizeof(L));
  SetLEngth(MyAnsiString, l);
  BlockRead(f, MyAnsiString[1], L);
end;l



Greetings
  Carlo Kok (born: 16-08-1984)
  ICQ: 73059433
  Volendam; The Netherlands

----- Original Message -----
From: <James_Wilson at i2.com>
To: <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:18 PM
Subject: [fpc-pascal]Strings vs. Ansistrings


> For go32 and Win32 targets... are strings read/written differently when
> compiling with {$H-} and {$H+}? I have a file viewer that uses an array of
> ^string. When compiled with {$H-}, shortstrings, the strings are read from
> the file and displayed on the screen perfectly. But, when I compile with
> ($H+}, ansistrings, the strings are displayed as garbage characters
> (without making any other changes to the code). According to the byte
count
> I calculate while reading the file both short and ansistrings are reading
> the exact same amount of data, but the displayed characters are all
garbled
> only when using ansistrings.
>
> I can't find anything in the docs that seem to point to this problem. Any
> help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
>
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