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Re: Pascal Strings

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Nov 23, 1998
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Adam Weeden wrote:

>in pascal strings are stored like this say you have the word PASCAL and it
>starts at memory location 13672 (this is an arbitrary no.)
>
>then the map of the memory would like
>
>13672  13673  13674  13675  13676  13677  13678
>  "P"       "A"       "S"       "C"       "A"       "L"       "\0"
>
>the "\0" at the end tells it that the string is over.

This describes 'C' strings, but I was under the impression that PASCAL
strings were stored like FORTH strings - the first byte held the count. That
limits the string length to 255 bytes:

13672  13673  13674  13675  13676  13677  13678
  6           'P'         'A'         'S'         'C'         'A'
'L'

-- David Cuny