According to The African Chief:
According to Frank Heckenbach:
255 chars max length are sometimes not enough.
But you can use normal GPC strings for that.
Just my point: For applications where you need looooong strings, GPC's <=2GB strings with 8 bytes of overhead are perfect. In those cases where you must save space, 255 characters are fine - and they are compatible to UCSD and Borland Pascal.
Should it be `ShortString' or `ShortStr'? In analogy to `LongInt' instead of `LongInteger' I would vote for `ShortStr'; OTOH, Prospero's Extended Pascal compiler (PEP) has `ShortString' for this ...
Peter
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