strcopy

Copy a null-terminated string

Declaration

Source position: strings.pp line 29

  function strcopy(dest: PChar; source: PChar) : PChar;  Overload;

Description

Copy the null terminated string in Source to Dest, and returns a pointer to Dest. Dest needs enough room to contain Source, i.e. StrLen(Source)+1 bytes.

Errors

No length checking is performed.

See also

Name Description
StrECopy Copy a null-terminated string, return a pointer to the end.
StrLCopy Copy a null-terminated string, limited in length.
StrPCopy Copy a pascal string to a null-terminated string

Example

Program Example4;
Uses strings;
{ Program to demonstrate the StrCopy function. }
Const P : PCHar = 'This is a PCHAR string.';
var PP : PChar;
begin
  PP:=StrAlloc(Strlen(P)+1);
  STrCopy (PP,P);
  If StrComp (PP,P)<>0 then
    Writeln ('Oh-oh problems...')
  else
    Writeln ('All is well : PP=',PP);
  StrDispose(PP);  
end.

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