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    strlcopy

    Copy a null-terminated string, limited in length.

    Declaration

    Source position: strings.pp line 35

    function strlcopy(dest: PAnsiChar; source: PAnsiChar; maxlen: SizeInt)
                  : PAnsiChar;  overload; 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.