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strlcopy

Copy a null-terminated string, limited in length.

Declaration

Source position: syspchh.inc line 26

function strlcopy(

  dest: PChar;

  source: PChar;

  maxlen: SizeInt

):PChar;

Description

Copies MaxLen characters from Source to Dest, and makes Dest a null terminated string.

Errors

No length checking is performed.

See also

StrCopy

  

Copy a null-terminated string

StrECopy

  

Copy a null-terminated string, return a pointer to the end.

Example

Program Example5;

Uses strings;

{ Program to demonstrate the StrLCopy function. }

Const P : PCHar = '123456789ABCDEF';

var PP : PCHar;

begin
  PP:=StrAlloc(11);
  Writeln ('First 10 characters of P : ',StrLCopy (PP,P,10));
  StrDispose(PP);
end.
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