[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Luca Olivetti]

El 16/08/17 a les 20:26, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus ha escrit:
> El 16/08/17 a les 01:17, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus ha escrit:
> 
>> In hind sight, using TBytes or TMemoryStream and it would have been 
>> very clear that it is a storage container for byte sized data, and no 
>> automatic conversion (by the compiler) would be done to data stored in 
>> such containers.
> 
> Call me lazy but I don't want to reinvent the wheel and re-implement 
> from scratch the functionality that a plain ansistring provides and 
> TBytes to this day doesn't.
> I mean, TBytes is just an "array of char". I can't (easily) add a byte 
> to the end, cut a slice of the bytes, find one byte in the array, etc.
> OK, I can, but I have to program it all by myself while a string does 
> all that and more and probably it's a lot more efficient.

Not to mention that its index starts from 0. If I wanted to program in C 
I would be programming in C, not pascal ;-)

Bye



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