BS> FP> Not exactly. They are in fact a record with two fields. One is the
  > FP> length and the other is a pointer to the actual characters forming 
he
  > FP> string. Those characters are null-terminated. And the null byte
  > FP> does'nt count into the length.
BS>I take it, then, that with Delphi 2 you can no longer pull stunts like
BS>  dec(s[0])
BS>to shorten a string by one character, or
BS>  n := 20 ;
  >  if s[0] > char(n) then s[0] := char(n) ;
BS>to set an upper limit to the string length ???
Only if you typecast it to a shortstring, or something like string[255].
Then strings are the "old" style strings, and will work the way you
think they should.
Rob
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