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Copy

   

Declaration:

Function Copy (Const S : String;Index : Integer;Count : Byte) : String;

Description:

Copy returns a string which is a copy if the Count characters in S, starting at position Index. If Count is larger than the length of the string S, the result is truncated.

If Index is larger than the length of the string S, then an empty string is returned.

Errors:

None.

See also:

Delete, Insert, Pos

Example
Program Example11;

{ Program to demonstrate the Copy function. }

Var S,T : String;

begin
  T:='1234567';
  S:=Copy (T,1,2);   { S:='12'   }
  S:=Copy (T,4,2);   { S:='45'   }
  S:=Copy (T,4,8);   { S:='4567' }
end.



Michael Van Canneyt
Thu Sep 10 14:02:43 CEST 1998