Again, Porting from another version of ancient proprietary Pascal. In GPC, apparently strings run like this: 4 byte Capacity, 4 byte Length, then the string Data. In my old compiler strings stored the length and only the length as a CHR(len) up to a length of 255. Where we could write statements like: string[0] := CHR(length); Is there a way to allow this in GPC, if not is it being planned or could someone point me in the direction to add a compiler flag to switch between the two? Also, if I have a String[15] and String[20] and I want to assign a variable with the value in string15, is there a way to get the compiler to not complain that the types are different? Thanks, Adam Oldham ----------------------------------------------------------------------- C. Adam Oldham Marconi Commerce Systems Inc. Software Engineer 7300 West Friendly Ave. adam.oldham@marconi.com Greensboro, NC 27420-2087 Phone : 336.547.5952 Fax : 336.547.5079 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This document contains confidential information of Marconi Commerce Systems Inc. In consideration of the receipt of this document, the recipient agrees not to reproduce, copy, use or transmit this document and/or the information contained herein, in whole or in part, or to suffer such actions by others, for any purpose except with written permission, first obtained, of Marconi Commerce Systems Inc., and further agrees to surrender the same to Marconi Commerce Systems Inc. upon demand. -----------------------------------------------------------------------