Why does Delphi warn when assigning ShortString to string?

Question

I\'m converting some legacy code to Delphi 2010.

There are a fair number of old ShortStrings, like string[25]

Why does the assignment below:

Answer 1

It's because your code is implicitly converting a single-byte character string to a UnicodeString. It's warning you in case you might have overlooked it, since that can cause problems if you do it by mistake.

To make it go away, use an explicit conversion:

S := string(ShortS);