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strcat function

In unit sysutils

Concatenate 2 null-terminated strings.

Declaration

pascal
function StrCat(dest: PAnsiChar; source: PAnsiChar): PAnsiChar

Description

Attaches Source to Dest and returns Dest.

Errors

No length checking is performed.

See also

Example: ex11

pascal
Program Example11;

Uses strings;

{ Program to demonstrate the StrCat function. }

Const P1 : PChar = 'This is a PChar String.';

Var P2 : PChar;

begin
  P2:=StrAlloc (StrLen(P1)*2+1);
  StrMove (P2,P1,StrLen(P1)+1); { P2=P1 }
  StrCat (P2,P1);               { Append P2 once more }
  Writeln ('P2 : ',P2);
  StrDispose(P2);
end.

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