Re: Where is stringbuilder?

"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm not sure about this, but my understanding is that Delphi treats a
String as an array of Bytes unless one uses the ANSI prefixed routines
which might treat some combinations of two bytes as one Char if one is
in a MBCS locale

You're right that it doesn't matter to the _language_. It's the
libraries where the difference starts to matter, mostly.

But the biggest problem (as usual) is in keeping things straight in
people's heads. I try to write _correct_ code and to encourage others
to do so. That requires, for example, being aware of the difference
between a string of 2-byte Unicode (UCS-2) characters, a string of
1-byte windows-1252 (not the same as either ISO-8859-1 or US-ASCII,
but close) characters, and a stream of bytes that encodes in UTF-8
either of those strings.


Is there ever a case where Length( S[n] ) = 2 ?

No. A character is a character even if it's a WideChar.
SizeOf(S[n]) might, though.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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