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9.53 Copy

Synopsis

 
function Copy (S: String; FirstChar, Count: Integer): String;
or
 
function Copy (S: String; FirstChar: Integer): String;

Description

`Copy' returns a sub-string of `S' starting with the character at position FirstChar. If Count is given, such many characters will be copied into the sub-string. If Count is omitted, the sub-string will will range to the end of S.

If `Count' is too large for the sub-string to fit in S, the result will be truncated at the end of S. If `FirstChar' exceeds the length of S, the empty string will be returned. (For a function which does not truncate but triggers a runtime error instead, see section 9.270 SubStr.)

Please note that GPC's strings may be longer than 255 characters. If you want to isolate the second half of a string S starting with the third character, use `Copy (S, 3)' instead of `Copy (S, 3, 255)'.

Conforming to

`Copy' is a UCSD Pascal extension. The possibility to omit the third parameter is a GNU Pascal extension.

Example

 
program CopyDemo;
var
  S: String (42);
begin
  S := 'Hello';
  WriteLn (Copy (S, 2, 3));  { yields `ell' }
  WriteLn (Copy (S, 3));     { yields `llo' }
  WriteLn (Copy (S, 4, 7));  { yields `lo' }
  WriteLn (Copy (S, 42))     { yields the empty string }
end.

See also

section 9.270 SubStr, section 8.5 Accessing parts of strings (and other arrays).



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