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Resizing huge strings

"Huge strings" introduced in Delphi 2.x can adjust their string size on demand. However, if you have a need to preset the size of a huge string, before passing to a function expecting a string buffer of a certain size for example, try the "SetLength()" function: { size of the following string is 3 } { 3 = two characters plus length or } { end-of-string holder } sHugeString := 'hi'; { set the size without assigning } SetLength( sHugeString, 1024 ); { sHugeString is now 1024 chars long }