22.2 Function list by category

What follows is a listing of the available functions, grouped by category. For each function there is a reference to the page where you can find the function.

String functions

Name Description Page
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AnsiCompareStr

Compare two strings 762

AnsiCompareText

Compare two strings, case insensitive 763

AnsiExtractQuotedStr

Removes quotes from string 765

AnsiLastChar

Get last character of string 765

AnsiLowerCase

Convert string to all-lowercase 766

AnsiQuotedStr

Qoutes a string 767

AnsiStrComp

Compare strings case-sensitive 767

AnsiStrIComp

Compare strings case-insensitive 768

AnsiStrLComp

Compare L characters of strings case sensitive 770

AnsiStrLIComp

Compare L characters of strings case insensitive 771

AnsiStrLastChar

Get last character of string 769

AnsiStrLower

Convert string to all-lowercase 772

AnsiStrUpper

Convert string to all-uppercase 773

AnsiUpperCase

Convert string to all-uppercase 773

AppendStr

Append 2 strings 774

AssignStr

Assign value of strings on heap 775

CompareStr

Compare two strings case sensitive 777

CompareText

Compare two strings case insensitive 778

DisposeStr

Remove string from heap 779

IsValidIdent

Is string a valid pascal identifier 797

LastDelimiter

Last occurance of character in a string 798

LeftStr

Get first N characters of a string 798

LoadStr

Load string from resources 799

LowerCase

Convert string to all-lowercase 799

NewStr

Allocate new string on heap 800

RightStr

Get last N characters of a string 801

StrAlloc

Allocate memory for string 759

StrBufSize

Reserve memory for a string 759

StrDispose

Remove string from heap 760

StrPas

Convert PChar to pascal string 761

StrPCopy

Copy pascal string 760

StrPLCopy

Copy N bytes of pascal string 761

UpperCase

Convert string to all-uppercase 809

Formatting strings

Name Description Page
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AdjustLineBreaks

Convert line breaks to line breaks for system 762

FormatBuf

Format a buffer 793

Format

Format arguments in string 784

FmtStr

Format buffer 783

QuotedStr

Quote a string 800

StrFmt

Format arguments in a string 801

StrLFmt

Format maximum L characters in a string 802

TrimLeft

Remove whitespace at the left of a string 807

TrimRight

Remove whitespace at the right of a string 808

Trim

Remove whitespace at both ends of a string 807

File input/output routines

Name Description Page
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FileCreate

Create a file and return handle 746

FileOpen

Open file end return handle 749

FileRead

Read from file 750

FileSeek

Set file position 751

FileTruncate

Truncate file length 752

FileWrite

Write to file 753

FileClose

Close file handle 745

File handling routines

Name Description Page
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AddDisk

Add sisk to list of disk drives 734

ChangeFileExt

Change extension of file name 739

CreateDir

Create a directory 734

DeleteFile

Delete a file 739

DiskFree

Free space on disk 735

DiskSize

Total size of disk 736

ExpandFileName

Create full file name 741

ExpandUNCFileName

Create full UNC file name 741

ExtractFileDir

Extract directory part of filename 742

ExtractFileDrive

Extract drive part of filename 742

ExtractFileExt

Extract extension part of filename 743

ExtractFileName

Extract name part of filename 743

ExtractFilePath

Extrct path part of filename 743

ExtractRelativePath

Construct relative path between two files 744

FileAge

Return file age 745

FileDateToDateTime

Convert file date to system date 724

FileExists

Determine whether a file exists on disk 747

FileGetAttr

Get attributes of file 747

FileGetDate

Get date of last file modification 749

FileSearch

Search for file in path 750

FileSetAttr

Get file attributes 752

FileSetDate

Get file dates 752

FindFirst

Start finding a file 753

FindNext

Find next file 754

GetCurrentDir

Return current working directory 737

RemoveDir

Remove a directory from disk 737

RenameFile

Rename a file on disk 756

SetCurrentDir

Set current working directory 737

SetDirSeparators

Set directory separator characters 756

FindClose

Stop searching a file 753

DoDirSeparators

Replace directory separator characters 740

Date/time routines

Name Description Page
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DateTimeToFileDate

Convert DateTime type to file date 716

DateTimeToStr

Construct string representation of DateTime 717

DateTimeToString

Construct string representation of DateTime 717

DateTimeToSystemTime

Convert DateTime to system time 718

DateTimeToTimeStamp

Convert DateTime to timestamp 719

DateToStr

Construct string representation of date 720

Date

Get current date 715

DayOfWeek

Get day of week 720

DecodeDate

Decode DateTime to year month and day 721

DecodeTime

Decode DateTime to hours, minutes and seconds 721

EncodeDate

Encode year, day and month to DateTime 722

EncodeTime

Encode hours, minutes and seconds to DateTime 723

FormatDateTime

Return string representation of DateTime 724

IncMonth

Add 1 to month 725

IsLeapYear

Determine if year is leap year 726

MSecsToTimeStamp

Convert nr of milliseconds to timestamp 726

Now

Get current date and time 727

StrToDateTime

Convert string to DateTime 729

StrToDate

Convert string to date 728

StrToTime

Convert string to time 729

SystemTimeToDateTime

Convert system time to datetime 730

TimeStampToDateTime

Convert time stamp to DateTime 731

TimeStampToMSecs

Convert Timestamp to number of millicseconds 732

TimeToStr

return string representation of Time 732

Time

Get current tyme 731