I have this issue where if I inspect a string in Delphi it always starts with {L and ends with another }
So for an example, I create a variable tempStr that is a string. I do the following code:
tempStr := 'hello';
When I put a break-point on the next line and stop there to inspect tempStr the yellow Delphi inspect window will show
{L"he"}
This started happening recently, within the last 2 weeks. I was working on protobufs for java to delphi. At first I thought it was happening because I was passing a pointer to a pointer which was filling some of my variables with random characters but I've since moved onto another project with different code and I'm still getting this inspect issue.
Edit: my example was wrong, this issue ends up cutting off the last 3 characters of any of my strings, essentially the amount of characters that the {L } take up. I have edited the above example to show exactly what I see upon inspection.
As far as Delphi addons go I have: DDev Extensions 2.83, CodeSiteExpress 5.1, Fast Report 4 and Mad Except 4.0.11
As per Warren P's suggestion I tried completely unregister the C++ debug visualizer package.
In (Tools > Options > Debugger Options > Visualizers) this is:
std::string and std::wstring Visualizer for C++
After I had this packaged unregistered I noticed that my problem was fixed. I was unsure of exactly what this package all did so I didn't want to leave it disabled. I then restarted Delphi with the package still disabled and upon starting Delphi again I re-enabled the package. Everything seems to be working now and the problem is fixed. So the solution was disable and re-enable this visualizer package.