[Lazarus] String vs WideString

[Luca Olivetti]

El 16/08/17 a les 22:40, Sven Barth via Lazarus ha escrit:
> 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.

I started using strings as communication buffers since delphi 2. There 
weren't even dynamic arrays then...

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