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[Charles Pegge]

Hi Nicola,

char and zstring are both null-terminated strings with 8bit characters. wchar and wzstring are null-terminated strings with 16bit characters. They are the same as the char types used in Windows.

bstring and wbstring are likewise windows OLE/BSTR strings.

string and wstring are oxygen-native strings based on the above. But they have automatic garbage collection.

You can use strings as char* parameters in Windows API calls. The compiler will sort it

[Nicola]

Thanks Charles.

(I'm Nicola)

[Charles Pegge]

Apologies! 

We have 2 women here, a considerable rarity for a Basic forum.

[Nicola]

My wife hates the PC because she sees it as a competitor to my relationship with her.
 

[Nicola]

Hi Charles.
To sum up on strings, is it okay as I reported in this picture?

Also could you tell me the use of WIDE?

ANY can be used for both numbers and strings?

[Charles Pegge]

Hi Nicola,

Wide chars are for Unicode. There are some demos in examples\WideChars\

Any* does the same as void* in C, passing the address of any type (by reference)