Reference for package '#rtl'

strlcopy

Copy a null-terminated string, limited in length.

Declaration

Source position: strings.pp line 33

  function strlcopy(dest: PChar; source: PChar; maxlen: SizeInt) : PChar
                   ;  Overload;

Description

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

Errors

No length checking is performed.

See also

Name Description
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.