How do I cast a dynamic array of type Char to a string?

[Vovin]

Hi,

I have a variable:
var searchbuf: array of Char;
This is used to store data from a file and needs to be dynamic.

Later in the code I then try and cast it to a string with the following code:
tempString := String(searchbuf);

The compiler gives me the error '...Incompatible types: 'Array' and 'Char'.

Can anyone tell me how I can get this array of chars into a string. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[hilfy]

It's the long way around and I'm sure someone else has a better solution, but you could do something like this:

s := '';
for i := 0 to length(Searchbuf) do
s := s + Searchbuf;

-D

 

[sijgs]

Vovin:

I like the following way (assuming short strings would be sufficient)..

Var
SearchBuf : Array[0..256] of Char;
TempString : ShortString ABSOLUTE SearchBuf;
Begin
FillChar(SearchBuf, SizeOf(SearchBuf), 0);
SearchBuf[1] := 'A';
SearchBuf[2] := 'B';
:
:
SearchBuf[0] := Chr(strlen(@SearchBuf[1]));
ShowMessage(TempString);
End;

HTH,
JGS

 

[richardchaven]

You might try

AString = String(PChar(ArrayOfChar));

Cheers

 

[sijgs]

RichardCHaven:

Very elegant indeed.

However, I did notice that due to the fact I still work with Short Strings as a default, I needed to change your string(pchar( to AnsiString(pchar( to get large strings to display over 255 chars.

Thanks for the tip.

JGS