Difference between revisions of "Character and string types"

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Revision as of 16:15, 28 December 2013

Free Pascal supports several types of characters and strings.

AnsiChar

A variable of type AnsiChar is exactly 1 byte in size, and contains one ASCII character.

a

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WideChar

A variable of type WideChar is exactly 2 bytes in size, and contains one Unicode character in UTF-16 encoding.

a

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PChar

A variable of type PChar is basically a pointer to a Char type, but allows additional operations. PChars can be used to access C-style null-terminated strings, e.g. in interaction with certain OS libraries or third-party software.

a b c #0
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PWideChar

A variable of type PWideChar is a pointer to a WideChar variable.

a b c #0 #0

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