Re: Where is stringbuilder?

J French wrote:
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:36:38 +0200, "Maarten Wiltink"
<maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

Slap ! SizeOf() - would it really ?
- that would mean that a Char by Char copy of one string to another
could result in a significant crunch

No, SizeOf is a compile-time constant (with one exception having to do with open arrays). If S is an AnsiString, SizeOf will return 1 above. If S is a WideString, then SizeOf will return 2. If S is a String, then SizeOf will return 1 in Win32 and 2 in .Net.

Is it actually possible in Delphi, for the number of Bytes in a string
to be different from its Length() ?

(obviously not WideString stuff)

No.

--
Rob
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