[fpc-pascal] string in fpc

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> > On 10 Feb 2006, at 20:31, Andrzej Baran wrote:
> > 
> > > I noticed that declaration of variable like:
> > > a:string[1]; is not valid any more in fpc-2.0.2, so how can I  
> > > declare a
> > > variable to get few char string instead of full length
> > 
> > It works here, even if ansistrings are the default ({$h+} or Delphi  
> > mode activated). The only thing that (logically) doesn't work here is  
> > "a:ansistring[1]".
> 
> This also doesn't work (I don't see why not?)
> 
> {$mode delphi}
> 
> var x : shortstring[4];
> 
> begin
> end.

Because shortstring is defined as String[255]

Michael.