The Character Item Type

Any characters put in an object, whether they start life as a String or as Text, have the item type OT Is Character.

Character items can be retrieved either as a String or as Text via OT GetString, OT GetText, or OT GetVariable. For example:

OT PutString ($object;"chars";"this was originally a string")

C_TEXT($text)$text:=OT GetText ($object;"chars")

$text:="this was originally text"OT PutText ($object;"chars";$text)

C_STRING(8;$str8)$str8:=OT GetString ($object;"chars") `$str8 will now contain "this was"

Likewise, any String or Text arrays put into an object are stored with an item type of OT Character array (113). Elements of this item type can then be retrieved either as a fixed width String or as Text via OT GetArrayString and OT GetArrayText .