[Overview][Procedures and functions][Index] Reference for unit 'strings' (#rtl)

strlcat

Concatenate 2 null-terminated strings, with length boundary.

Declaration

Source position: strings.pp line 64

function strlcat(

  dest: pchar;

  source: pchar;

  l: SizeInt

):pchar;

Description

Adds L characters from Source to Dest, and adds a terminating null-character. Returns Dest.

Errors

None.

See also

StrCat

  

Concatenate 2 null-terminated strings.

Example

Program Example12;

Uses strings;

{ Program to demonstrate the StrLCat function. }

Const P1 : PChar = '1234567890';

Var P2 : PChar;

begin
  P2:=StrAlloc (StrLen(P1)*2+1);
  P2^:=#0; { Zero length }
  StrCat (P2,P1);
  StrLCat (P2,P1,5);
  Writeln ('P2 = ',P2);
  StrDispose(P2)
end.
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