[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Sven Barth]

On 16.08.2017 20:26, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus wrote:
> 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.

Trunk supports Insert() and Delete() on dynamic arrays, Concat() and +
are on the near term ToDo list.

Regards,
Sven