[lazarus] Why is this not working? (PChar conversion)

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Tony wrote:

> Working on converting a component from Delphi 5...
>
>
> Given this:
>
>   FComments: String;
>   p : PChar;
>
> This line compiles fine:
>
>   p := PChar(ExtractFilename(FFileSource));
>
> But this line generates an illegal type conversion:
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>   p := PChar(FComments);
>
> Any ideas?

Is FComments an ansistring or a shortstring, IOW, did you use {$H+} ?

Michael.