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Reference for unit 'System' (#rtl)

Delete

Delete part of a string.

Declaration

Source position: systemh.inc line 1082

procedure Delete(

var s: shortstring;

index: SizeInt;

count: SizeInt

); procedure Delete(

var S: RawByteString;

Index: SizeInt;

Size: SizeInt

); procedure Delete(

var S: UnicodeString;

Index: SizeInt;

Size: SizeInt

); procedure Delete(

var S: WideString;

Index: SizeInt;

Size: SizeInt

);

Description

Delete removes Count characters from string S, starting at position Index. All characters after the deleted characters are shifted Count positions to the left, and the length of the string is adjusted.

Errors

Shortstring variant's third parameter is called Count, in other overloaded variants it is called Index

Example

Program Example15;

{ Program to demonstrate the Delete function. }

Var
  S : String;

begin
  S:='This is not easy !';
  Delete (S,9,4); { S:='This is easy !' }
end.

Copy		Copy part of a string.
Pos		Search for substring in a string.
Insert		Insert one string in another.

Delete

Declaration

Description

Errors

See also

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