Technical Notes Database TN1245D.txt PChars in TPW. Category :Pascal Platform :All Product :Turbo Pascal 1.0 Description: PChar is a special pointer type that has been added to the Pascal Windows language definition. A PChar is a pointer to an array of characters with a maximum size of 64K and terminated by a null character (#0). This is a C string, and comes with all the memory management hassles and pointer arithmetic advantages of C. The PChars and arrays of char are type compatible, and a Strings unit is devoted to C-string manipulation functions (all start with "STR"). When passing a string literal to a procedure, the compiler will figure out whether the string literal should be stored in c-string format or in pascal string format, or both. Reference: 7/16/98 4:35:43 PM
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