Re: Substring with unknown length (newbie)


"Lene" <lenehell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> that means I'll have difficulties using the 'copy' function since
> it requires length parameter.
>
> I'm trying to copy or search a string until a certain character match,
> and then null-terminate. something like (pseudo) :
>
> Search string[ i++] until string [ i] = '>';
> string [ i+1] := #0;
>
> Maybe I'll obtain a substring merely by inserting a null
> character in the source string.

You could.

> But maybe it is the syntax that is my problem.

theSubString := Copy (theString, 1, Pos (theCharacter, theString) - 1);

should do the trick.


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