There is only one string operator: +. Its action is to concatenate the contents of the two strings (or characters) it acts on. One cannot use + to concatenate null-terminated (PChar) strings. The following are valid string operations:
The following is not:
Because Dirname is a null-terminated string.
Note that if all strings in a string expressions are short strings, the resulting string is also a short string. Thus, a truncation may occur: there is no automatic upscaling to ansistring.
If all strings in a string expression are ansistrings, then the result is an ansistring.
If the expression contains a mix of ansistrings and shortstrings, the result is an ansistring.
The value of the {$H} switch can be used to control the type of constant strings; by default, they are short strings (and thus limited to 255 characters).