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6.15.15 BP compatibility: Strings

The following listing contains the interface of the Strings unit.

This is a compatibility unit to BP's Strings unit to handle C style #0-terminated strings.

The same functionality and much more is available in the Run Time System, Run Time System, under clearer names (starting with a CString prefix),

Moreover, the use of #0-terminated C-style strings (PChar or CString) is generally not recommended in GPC, since GPC provides ways to deal with Pascal-style strings of arbitrary and dynamic size in a comfortable way, as well as automatic conversion to C-style strings in order to call external C functions.

Therefore, using this unit is not recommended in newly written programs.

     { BP compatible Strings unit
     
       Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     
       Author: Frank Heckenbach <frank@pascal.gnu.de>
     
       This file is part of GNU Pascal.
     
       GNU Pascal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
       it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
       by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your
       option) any later version.
     
       GNU Pascal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
       WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
       General Public License for more details.
     
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       along with GNU Pascal; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
       Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
       02111-1307, USA.
     
       As a special exception, if you link this file with files compiled
       with a GNU compiler to produce an executable, this does not cause
       the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public
       License. This exception does not however invalidate any other
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     {$gnu-pascal,I-}
     {$if __GPC_RELEASE__ < 20030303}
     {$error This unit requires GPC release 20030303 or newer.}
     {$endif}
     
     module Strings;
     
     export Strings = all (CStringLength => StrLen, CStringEnd => StrEnd,
                           CStringMove => StrMove, CStringCopy =>
       StrCopy,
                           CStringCopyEnd => StrECopy, CStringLCopy =>
       StrLCopy,
                           CStringCopyString => StrPCopy, CStringCat =>
       StrCat,
                           CStringLCat => StrLCat, CStringComp =>
       StrComp,
                           CStringCaseComp => StrIComp, CStringLComp =>
       StrLComp,
                           CStringLCaseComp => StrLIComp, CStringChPos =>
       StrScan,
                           CStringLastChPos => StrRScan, CStringPos =>
       StrPos,
                           CStringLastPos => StrRPos, CStringUpCase =>
       StrUpper,
                           CStringLoCase => StrLower, CStringIsEmpty =>
       StrEmpty,
                           CStringNew => StrNew);
     
     import GPC;
     
     function StrPas (aString: CString): TString;
     procedure StrDispose (s: CString); external name '_p_Dispose';