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AbbrevString

Unit:SDL_stringl
Class:none
Declaration:function AbbrevString (Instring: string; width: integer): string;

The function AbbrevString abbreviates the string Instring if the length of Instring exceeds width characters. The abbreviated string consists of the width-2 first characters of Instring plus two dots, and is returned as function result.

Example: The statement AbbrevString ('This is a difficult situation', 16); returns the string 'This is a diff..'.

Last Update: 2012-Oct-20