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strecopy

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

Declaration

Source position: syspchh.inc line 21

  function strecopy(dest: pchar; source: pchar) : pchar;
  function strecopy(dest: pwidechar; source: pwidechar) : pwidechar;

Description

Copies the Null-terminated string in Source to Dest, and returns a pointer to the end (i.e. the terminating Null-character) of the copied string.

Errors

No length checking is performed.

See also

Name Description
StrCopy Copy a null-terminated string
StrLCopy Copy a null-terminated string, limited in length.

Example

Program Example6;
Uses strings;
{ Program to demonstrate the StrECopy function. }
Const P : PChar = 'This is a PCHAR string.';
Var PP : PChar;
begin
  PP:=StrAlloc (StrLen(P)+1);
  If Longint(StrECopy(PP,P))-Longint(PP)<>StrLen(P) then
    Writeln('Something is wrong here !')
  else
    Writeln ('PP= ',PP);
  StrDispose(PP);  
end.