Delphi – E2056 String literals may have at most 255 elements

Posted by AbundantCode

When you create a string type in your delphi program with more than 255 elements, assign a string literal with more than 255 characters to a variable of type ShortString, or have more than 255 characters in a single character string, you’ll see this error notice.

You can create large string literals that span multiple lines by concatenating several string literals using the ‘+’ operator.

program Produce;
var
  LongString : string[256];  (*<-- Error message here*)
begin
end.

In the example above, the length of the string is just one beyond the limit.


program Solve;
var
  LongString : AnsiString;
begin
end.

The most convenient way is to use the new long strings; this eliminates the need to consider what a suitable maximum length might be.

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