PWideChar: what changed
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Title: Pwidechar PWideChar
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| 1 | + | Back to [[Data type|data types]]. | |
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| 3 | + | The **PWideChar** data type: | |
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| 5 | + | - has no size restriction; | |
| 6 | + | - is a pointer to a zero-terminated wide string with no length limit. | |
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| 8 | + | Definition of a data field of data type PWideChar: | |
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| 10 | + | ``` pascal | |
| 11 | + | var | |
| 12 | + | p : PWideChar; | |
| 13 | + | ``` | |
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| 15 | + | Examples for the valid assignment of values: | |
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| 17 | + | ``` pascal | |
| 18 | + | p := 'This is a zero-terminated string.' ; | |
| 19 | + | p := IntToStr(45); | |
| 20 | + | ``` | |
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| 22 | + | Examples of invalid assignment of values: | |
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| 24 | + | ``` pascal | |
| 25 | + | p := 45; | |
| 26 | + | ``` | |
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| 28 | + | In the example above, the value to be transferred was not cast to the PWideChar data type. | |
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| 30 | + | --- | |
| 31 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "PWideChar", as it stood on 2023-12-22 after a change by Alextpp, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* |