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From: levi@localhost.nc3a.nato.int
Subject: a string question
Date: 11 Jul 2001, 10:58:12

Adam Naumowicz wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a basic question concerning strings and array memory representation
> in GPC. To my amusement I noticed that in the following program the string
> assigned to an array element cannot be then restored from the array
> itself.
> So probably an array of strings is not represented in memory just like an
> array of simple type, and cannot (?) be simply getmem-ed ?
> 
> program test;
> type
>   NameStr=String[8];
>   shortarray=array[1..3] of NameStr;
> 
> var
>   n:NameStr;
>   a:^shortarray;
>   i:integer;
> 
> begin
>  getmem(a,3*sizeof(NameStr));
>  n:='12345678';
>  for i:=1 to 3 do
>   begin
>    a^[i]:=n;
>    writeln('n = ',n)
>    writeln('a^[i] = ',a^[i]);
>   end;
> end.
> 
> As a result the value of a^[i] is an empty string after the assignment;
> I will be very grateful for any answers or comments
> (I use gpc version 20010502, based on 2.95.3 20010315).

Strange. For me it works as expected (djgpp 20010623 based on 2.95.3)
Maurice

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