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I must be doing something very wrong here. Why doesn't this work?
It can't be missing the null byte otherwise PeekS() would fail.

This works fine:

Mistrel wrote:I must be doing something very wrong here. Why doesn't this work?

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*This.String=@"Hello!"
Debug PeekS(*This) ;/ Works fine
Debug *This\s ;/ Errors here

Because you're missing something fundamental!
What is *This.String? Is it a pointer? Yes.
Is it a pointer to string data? No!
Is it a pointer to a string variable? Yes!
What does @String do? Receive a pointer to the string variable? No!
@String (or @"String") receives a pointer to the string data.

*This.String is a pointer to a structure which contains a single string variable.
You set *This.String to point to some string data. It should point to a string variable.

A string variable is just a pointer which points to the string data.

PeekS() does not expect a pointer to a string variable. It expects a pointer to string data. That is why it works.