Re: Strings

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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:07:28 +1300, jiri babor <jbabor at PARADISE.NET.NZ>
wrote:

>More recent pascal incarnations usually have 'zero' delimited strings too,
>but the classic pascal string is up to 255 characters (bytes) long with the
>current char count in the zero byte. jiri
>

The traditional Pascal string is an array of char with the actual length
in byte[0]
This makes string handling much easier and faster for Pascal than
for C, but also limits you to short strings.
Newer Pascals, Borland, for example, have added C-style
strings, ending in 0 - mostly to cater to Windows.
Unfortunately, that adds a whole 'nother set of string functions
to keep track of. Plus a set of conversion functions...

Arrgh!

Irv

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