a := 'abcdefghixxxx';
b := 'jklmnopqr';
StrCopy(a,b);

You made source longer.  The dest needs to be strlen(source)+1

a := 'abcdefghi';
b := 'jklmnopqrxxxx';
StrCopy(a,b);



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From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ross Levis
Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2013 5:20 p.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] StrCopy problem

I did read that previously a few times.  Ok, so I should make A longer by 1 
character?  I think A is already 10 characters long with a #0 at the end.

Anyway, I changed it to the following.
a := 'abcdefghixxxx';
b := 'jklmnopqr';
StrCopy(a,b);

Still an access violation in StrCopy.


From: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Moorhouse
Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2013 3:26 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [DUG] StrCopy problem

Your answer is in the help file

Use StrCopy to copy Source to Dest. StrCopy returns Dest.

StrCpy does not perform any length checking. The destination buffer must have 
room for at least 
StrLen<http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/delphiAndcpp2009/HelpUpdate2/EN/html/delphivclwin32/[email protected]>(Source)+1
 characters.

For length checking, use the 
StrLCopy<http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/delphiAndcpp2009/HelpUpdate2/EN/html/delphivclwin32/SysUtils_StrLCopy@PAnsiChar@[email protected]>
 function.


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On 12/05/13 14:45, Ross Levis wrote:
Doesn't really help.

a := 'abcdefghi' does allocate 9 bytes of RAM.  I can access a and b after it 
is assigned.  The problem is StrCopy crashes.  I would expect "a" to have the 
same string as b once this is executed.

Ross.

From: 
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 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Allpress
Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2013 10:27 AM
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] StrCopy problem

Perhaps:
http://rvelthuis.de/articles/articles-pchars.html


From: 
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 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ross Levis
Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2013 2:39 a.m.
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: [DUG] StrCopy problem

var
  a: pChar;
  b: pChar;
begin
  a := 'abcdefghi';
  b := 'jklmnopqr';
  StrCopy(a,b);
end;

Question:  Why does this code crash?




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