strnew

Allocate room for new null-terminated string.

Declaration

Source position: syspchh.inc line 35

  function strnew(p: pchar) : pchar;  Overload;
  function strnew(p: PWideChar) : PWideChar;  Overload;

Description

Copies P to the Heap, and returns a pointer to the copy.

Errors

Returns Nil if no memory was available for the copy.

See also

Name Description
StrCopy Copy a null-terminated string
StrDispose Dispose of a null-terminated string on the heap.

Example

Program Example16;
Uses strings;
{ Program to demonstrate the StrNew function. }
Const P1 : PChar = 'This is a PChar string';
var P2 : PChar;
begin
  P2:=StrNew (P1);
  If P1=P2 then
    writeln ('This can''t be happening...')
  else
    writeln ('P2 : ',P2);
  StrDispose(P2);  
end.