[fpc-pascal] GetClipboardFormatName causing an Error 216

[Alexander Grotewohl]

yes, this type of thing is why we use Pascal. pchar is your little bucket of ram that FPC in a sense knows nothing about. set it to #0 and pray for the best, cause that's what you do..

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Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] GetClipboardFormatName causing an Error 216

Le 01/01/2021 à 00:48, James Richters via fpc-pascal a écrit :

I’m not too familiar with PChars, but is there a way to set it to zero length?

I set it to #0 and it works ok with the #0 in there with Notepadd++ but I think it’s technically not correct.

For me, it's correct. C strings are just terminated with a null character, no notion of length, the length is not recorded in the string as in Pascal.
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