DataType

PString

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Description

A "Pascal" string, typically used only with Mac OS 9. The first byte is the length of the string; as a result, it is limited to 255 characters. You can pass a regular String to it and it will be converted to a PString automatically. Also, PString does an implicit type conversion to String when you assign a PString to a String variable.

Notes

There may be legacy macOS APIs that make use of this data type, but otherwise it should be avoided.

Compatibility

All project types on all supported operating systems.

See also

Declare statement