[fpc-pascal] TStringHelper missing

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Ryan Joseph wrote:

> I’m trying to split a string by a delimiter and see there is a type helper called TStringHelper (https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/tstringhelper.html). The compiler version I’m using is "Free Pascal Compiler version 3.1.1 [2017/04/22] for i386” but when I include SysUtils the methods are not found.
>
> For example:
>
> var
>  str: string;
>  parts: TStringArray;
>
> parts := str.Split(' ‘);
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Try

var
   Str : AnsiString;
or
   Str : WideString;

I believe the compiler has some trouble finding the helper if you use the
'string' alias. I think there is even a bugreport about it.
Sven Barth can confirm/deny this.

Michael.