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Not widely known problem in programming? (Developers)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 29.03.2021, 05:04

> I was curious about the meaning of your example. The FreePascal
> description of
> the pchar type confirms my expectation: the #0 inserts a zero
> terminator into the s variable, and @s[1] makes a pointer to the message
> data. (I think 0 would point to the string-type object's length counter?)

Yes, exactly. S[0] is the length of the string (so this is the reason why this type of string variable is limited to 255 chars) and the chars begin from S[1]

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Complete thread:

• Not widely known problem in programming? - Laaca, 27.03.2021, 20:06 (Developers)
  • Not widely known problem in programming? - ecm, 27.03.2021, 20:30
    • Not widely known problem in programming? - tkchia, 28.03.2021, 08:02
      • Not widely known problem in programming? - marcov, 28.03.2021, 17:44
      • Not widely known problem in programming? - bretjohn, 29.03.2021, 20:03
        • Not widely known problem in programming? - Laaca, 29.03.2021, 22:24
          • Not widely known problem in programming? - bretjohn, 29.03.2021, 23:02
            • Not widely known problem in programming? - marcov, 30.03.2021, 12:05
        • Not widely known problem in programming? - ecm, 29.03.2021, 22:26
  • Not widely known problem in programming? - ecm, 28.03.2021, 21:52
    • Not widely known problem in programming? - Laaca, 29.03.2021, 05:04