ObjectPascal ShortString Type Defines a string of up to 255 characters System unit

type ShortString

Description The ShortString type holds sequences of characters up to 255 in length.   Strings can be assigned from other strings, from functions that return a string, and with concatenations as in the sample code. Notes ShortStrings are indexed with 1 for the first character (arrays start with 0 for the first element). A String type is treated as a ShortString when the $LongStrings compiler directive is set to Off Related commands $LongStrings Treat string types as AnsiString or ShortString AnsiCompareStr Compare two strings for equality AnsiLowerCase Change upper case characters in a string to lower case AnsiPos Find the position of one string in another AnsiString A data type that holds a string of AnsiChars AnsiUpperCase Change lower case characters in a string to upper case Concat Concatenates one or more strings into one string Copy Create a copy of part of a string or an array Delete Delete a section of characters from a string Length Return the number of elements in an array or string Move Copy bytes of data from a source to a destination PShortString A pointer to an ShortString value SetLength Changes the size of a string, or the size(s) of an array String A data type that holds a string of characters WideString A data type that holds a string of WideChars		Example code : Assigning to a ShortString and a fixed length string var   smallString    : string[2];   smallishString : ShortString; begin   // Assign to our small string   smallString := 'ABCD';   ShowMessageFmt('smallString size = %d',[SizeOf(smallString)]);   ShowMessageFmt('smallString = %s',[smallString]);   // Assign to our slightly bigger string   smallishString := 'ABCD';   ShowMessageFmt('smallishString size = %d',[SizeOf(smallishString)]);   ShowMessageFmt('smallishString = %s',[smallishString]); end; Show full unit code    smallString size = 3    smallString = AB    smallishString size = 256    smallishString = ABCD