Other Standard Pointer Types The
System
and
SysUtils
units declare many standard pointer types that are commonly used.
Selected pointer types declared in System and SysUtils Pointer type Points to variables of type PAnsiString, PString
AnsiString
PByteArray
TByteArray (declared in
SysUtils
). Used to typecast dynamically allocated
memory for array access.
PCurrency, PDouble, PExtended, PSingle Currency, Double, Extended, Single
PInteger
Integer
POleVariant
OleVariant
PShortString
ShortString. Useful when porting legacy code that uses the old PString type.
PTextBuf
TTextBuf (declared in
SysUtils
). TTextBuf is the internal buffer type in a
TTextRec file record.)
PVarRec
TVarRec (declared in
System
)
PVariant
Variant
PWideString
WideString
PWordArray
TWordArray (declared in
SysUtils
). Used to typecast dynamically allocated
memory for arrays of 2-byte values.
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