[fpc-pascal]absolute identifier

[Florian Klaempfl]

At 14:54 10.04.02 -0500, you wrote:
>thanks - ill do that instead.  btw the code i posted works afiak.

Yes, it should and you don't need the setlength because the type
cast code does the job for you.

 > how about for type casting?
 >
 >   var
 >     buf: array[1..255] of char;
 >     buflen: byte;
 >     str: ansistring;
 >   ...
 >   str:=ansistring(buf);
 >   setlength(str,buflen);