Simple Question on TYPEs

[Borje Hagsten]

A way around is to declare dynamic strings as STRING PTR instead, like:

TYPE MyType
  txt AS STRING PTR
END TYPE
 
' Set some text to the string member:
[email protected] = "Some text"
 
' Read the member's contents:
TheString$ = [email protected]

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[Warren Daniel]

Whenever I create a TYPE that includes a string, I have to designate a length for the string, and I was wondering the reasoning for having to do this? eg.

Type Product
Catagory AS STRING ' <-- Blows chunks during compile.
Foobar AS STRING * 4096 ' <-- No problem.
END TYPE

Anyway around this?