Subj : Re: MPL Strings
To   : Black Panther
From : Shaun Buzza
Date : Fri Mar 25 2022 10:55 pm

 BP> Just a quick question for you. I know that strings in MPL are 255
 BP> characters, but is there a way to have a string that is longer?
 BP> 
 BP> The reason I'm asking, is I wrote a function that will take a text
 BP> string, and wrap the text to the users terminal size. The problem I'm
 BP> running into, is with the larger screen sizes, 255 characters isn't much
 BP> longer than the screen.
 BP> 
 BP> Would it be possible to have something like an ansistring in MPL, or
 BP> would that cause issues with the memory limits of MPL?

Isn't 255 the limit for string size in all versions of Pascal? Yeah, I know MPL isn't exactly Passcal, but I would assume that it is constrained by the limits of Pascal itself...

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