Re: Substring with unknown length (newbie)

Take a look at delphis help for strings

this might work:

Result := Copy(InputStr, 1, Pos('>', InputStr));

Pos will return the position needed, and in Copy here it is the length.
Take a look at the help for those 2. Also, there is one function to
compare Ansi strings, but that is probably somehwere in the help

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