[fpc-pascal] How to know the string type of a variable?

[Marcos Douglas]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Marcos Douglas wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is possible to know what string type of a variable (AnsiString,
>> UTF8String, RawByteString, etc)?
>
>
> You can try
>
> if TypeInfo(S)=TypeInfo(AnsiString) then
>
> etc.
>
> The following program
>
> procedure t(S : String);
>
> begin
>   if typeinfo(s)=typeinfo(shortstring) then
>     Writeln('ShortString')
>   else
>     Writeln('Ansistring'); end;
>
> begin
>   t('');
> end.
>
> Prints ShortString if compiled as-is (fpc mode), and prints AnsiString if
> compiled with -S2h (objfpc mode, string=ansistring)

TypeInfo!
I was trying using "type(s)", "s is AnsiString"... I forgot.

Thank you.

Marcos Douglas