> Is there any way to get C to work with Pascal style strings?

You probably mean 'Turbo Pascal' style strings. :-)  And yes, there is a
difference.  TP is quite a different language from ANSI/ISO Pascal.

But yes - easily. Just create the functions to do so.  str*() functions are
just library functions - the only real "strings" support in C is
that you can declare a NUL terminated 'C' string automatically with:

char mystring[] = "xyz";
  and
char * mystring = "xyz";

I've had to interface with TP code on many occasions and there's not much
to it.  Just handle the pascal strings as arrays of unsigned chars with a
byte up front.  Once you get sick of the 255 character limit, you'll
probably not worry about using them unless interfacing to structures
designed for TP.  Or, you'll upgrade to C++ and write a string class which
handles all the fiddling required for more useful schemes transparently.


david

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