{
    This file is part of the Free Pascal run time library.
    Copyright (c) 1999-2005,2011 by Florian Klaempfl and Jonas Maebe,
    members of the Free Pascal development team.

    This file implements support routines for AnsiStrings with FPC/JVM

    See the file COPYING.FPC, included in this distribution,
    for details about the copyright.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

 **********************************************************************}

{$define FPC_ANSISTRING_TYPE_DEFINED}
type
  AnsistringClass = class sealed (JLObject)
   private
    var
      fElementSize: Word;
      fCodePage: TSystemCodePage;
      fdata: TAnsiCharArray;
   public
    constructor Create(len: longint; cp: TSystemCodePage);overload;
    constructor Create(const arr: array of ansichar; length: longint; cp: TSystemCodePage);overload;
    constructor Create(const arr: array of unicodechar; cp: TSystemCodePage);overload;
    constructor Create(const u: unicodestring; cp: TSystemCodePage);overload;
    constructor Create(const a: RawByteString; cp: TSystemCodePage);overload;
    constructor Create(const s: shortstring; cp: TSystemCodePage);overload;
    constructor Create(ch: ansichar; cp: TSystemCodePage);overload;
    constructor Create(ch: unicodechar; cp: TSystemCodePage);overload;
    class function CreateFromLiteralStringBytes(const u: unicodestring; cp: TSystemCodePage): RawByteString; static;
    function charAt(index: jint): ansichar;
    function toUnicodeString: unicodestring;
    function toShortstring(maxlen: byte): shortstring;
    function toString: JLString; override;
//    function concat(const a: ansistring): ansistring;
//    function concatmultiple(const arr: array of ansistring): ansistring;
    function length: jint;
    function codePage: TSystemCodePage;
    function elementSize: Word;
    class function internChars(const a: Ansistring): TAnsiCharArray; static;
  end;


