Converting TMemoryStream to 'String' in Delphi 2009

Question

We had the following code prior to Delphi 2009:

function MemoryStreamToString(M : TMemoryStream): String;
var
    NewCapacity: Longint;
begin
    if (M.Size          


        

Answer 1

You can cast it into the right sized character pointer and just simple assign it:

procedure getMemoryStreamAsString( aMS_ : TMemoryStream );
var
  ws : widestring; // in newer Delphi it can be string
  ans : ansistring;
begin
  ws := pwidechar( aMS_.memory );
  // OR
  ans := pansichar( aMS_.memory );
end;