I see it mentioned on this board at least every other day - using Strings rather than strings can cause heap big trouble. Is this just because Strings exist in the program or, do the problems arise when Strings are manipulated? In the snippet attached the Strings are only used to print menu text. P…

String vs. string

dougp July 19, 2017, 7:21pm 8

OK, my Strings are now character arrays. I am impressed. Program storage went from 5640 to 3916 and RAM usage dropped from 741 to 615. I'm a convert.

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