[fpc-pascal] length for long ansistring = segment fault

[ik]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, ik wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> When I try to get the length of AnsiString, it returns me segment fault.
>> I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong:
>>
>> var
>>  s : AnsiString;
>>  l : word;
>>
>> begin
>>  SetLength(s, 1024);
>>  FillChar(s, 1024, '*');
>
>
> You are overwriting the pointer. S is (behind the scenes) a pointer to a
> memory area. You should do FillChar(s[1], 1024, '*');

Right :( Thanks

>
> Michael.
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