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Are dynamic arrays in Delphi half-baked?

Delphi Haven – In a nice little series on ‘Delphi in a Unicode world’ written and published around the time of Delphi 2009’s release, Nick Hodges writes on the topic of using strings as binary buffers as thus: A common idiom is to use a string as a data buffer. It’s common because it’s been easy — manipulating strings is generally pretty straight forward. However, existing code that does this will almost certainly need to be adjusted given the fact that string now is a UnicodeString. There are a couple of ways to deal with code that uses a string as a data buffer. The first is to ...

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