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FillChar procedure

In unit System

Fill memory region with certain character.

Declaration

pascal
procedure FillChar(var x; count: SizeInt; Value: Byte)

Description

Fillchar fills the memory starting at X with Count bytes or characters with value equal to Value.

Errors

No checking on the size of X is done.

See also

Example: ex25

pascal
Program Example25;

{ Program to demonstrate the FillChar function. }

Var S : String[10];
    I : Byte;
begin
  For i:=10 downto 0 do
    begin
    { Fill S with i spaces }
    FillChar (S,SizeOf(S),' ');
    { Set Length }
    SetLength(S,I);
    Writeln (s,'*');
    end;
end.

An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.