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Report #: 33308

Status: Open

Add an hexadecimal view for string/binary content

Project: Delphi

Build #: N/A

Version: 10.0

Submitted By: Eric Grange

Report Type: Suggestion / Enhancement Request

Date Reported: 8/31/2006 12:50:21 AM

Severity: Infrequently encountered problem

Last Updated: 3/20/2012 2:24:39 AM

Platform: All platforms

Internal Tracking #: 242510

Resolution: None (Resolution Comments)

Resolved in Build: : None

Duplicate of: None

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Description

Sometimes it is hard to figure out the exact value of a string in the evaluator view, notably when there are many CRLF, ' or ", TAB or other non-alphanumeric characters.

Having an hexadecimal view would alleviate that (hexa bytes on the left characters on the right), f.i. #9'Hello'#13#10 would be viewable as

09 48 65 6C 6C 6F 0D 0A .Hello..

This would be especially desirable for long strings.
The ',x' specifier could be extended to support that transformation for strings.

Steps to Reproduce:

program Project4;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  SysUtils;

var
  MyStr: string;
begin
  try
    MyStr := 'abc'#13#10'efg';
    WriteLn(MyStr);  // place a breakpoint to evaluate MyStr here => 'abc'#$D#$A'def'
  except
    on E:Exception do
      Writeln(E.Classname, ': ', E.Message);
  end;
end.

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