Re: Password Generator

"Dr John Stockton" <jrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> For some string types, length(s) is expensive, and should be done at
> most once in the routine; at least in Pascal, it can be done at compile
> time.

Shortstring has the length as the byte at offset 0, ansistring as the
dword at offset -4 or -8, I'm not sure which and it doesn't matter much.
But in Delphi, Length() is not an expensive function unless you go out
of your way to pass it a PChar.

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink


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