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strlcat function

In unit sysutils

Concatenate 2 null-terminated strings, with length boundary.

Declaration

pascal
function StrLCat(dest: PAnsiChar; source: PAnsiChar; l: SizeInt)
: PAnsiChar

Description

Adds MaxLen characters from Source to Dest, and adds a terminating null-character. Returns Dest.

Errors

None.

See also

Example: ex12

pascal
Program Example12;

Uses strings;

{ Program to demonstrate the StrLCat function. }

Const P1 : PChar = '1234567890';

Var P2 : PChar;

begin
  P2:=StrAlloc (StrLen(P1)*2+1);
  P2^:=#0; { Zero length }
  StrCat (P2,P1);
  StrLCat (P2,P1,5);
  Writeln ('P2 = ',P2);
  StrDispose(P2)
end.

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