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

[Ralf Quint]

On 12/30/2013 4:55 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
>> procedure t(S : String);
>>
>> begin
>>     if typeinfo(s)=typeinfo(shortstring) then
>>       Writeln('ShortString')
>>     else
>>       Writeln('Ansistring');
>> end;
>>
>> begin
>>     t('');
>> end.
> Thank you, I saved it to my obfuscated Pascal mailfolder :-)
>
Yup, tagged this as "intersting" in my mail folder as well... 8-)

Hope that some little gem like this will make it somehow into the FPC 
documentation...

Ralf

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