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

[Marcos Douglas]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>>> No. You make a wrong assumption.
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>>> TypeInfo will return the DECLARED type of S.
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>>> Not the type that was actually passed when calling the routine:
>>> That has been converted to the declared type of S by the compiler even
>>> before the routine ShowType is called.
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>> You're right.
>> Well is there another way to do I showed before?
>> I want to create a record/object type to receive a "string" but I need
>> to know which string type was before.
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> There is no way.
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>> If I change the code (see below) to use Pointer type it works but I
>> think this is won't help me.
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> No, it will not help you.

Yes... Well, I was trying the easy way but not possible.  :-)

> One thing you can do is use overloading:
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> [code]
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> The compiler will choose the correct overloaded version, and you will know
> which one she picked.
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> But it would help to know what exactly you want to achieve.

I had some ideas looking at your code. Thank you.

Regards,
Marcos Douglas