Re: Substring with unknown length (newbie)

NewStr := Copy(OldStr, 1, Pos('>', OldStr);

Delphi puts a #0 at the end of every string so that one can readily
typecast to a "pointer to char" by using PChar(MyStr). This is
effectively the same as ...

MyStr := MyStr + #0;
MyPChar := @MyStr[1];

So having copied the first part of the string up to and including the
'>', one can use it as a pointer-to-zero-terminated-string by coding
....

PChar(NewStr)

Alan Lloyd

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