Apollo VCL Components > Apollo VCL Component Reference > TApolloTable > TApolloTable Methods

Declaration

function GetStringEx( sFieldName: String ): PChar;

Description

Extracts the contents of a character field as a PChar value. This was useful mainly in Delphi 1.x for fields which are too long (over 255 bytes wide) to use GetString. You should not need to use this function under 32-bit compilers and only remains for backwards compatibility.

Parameters

sFieldName: The name of the field.

Return Value

The field contents are returned as a PChar.

Delphi Example

// Read long NOTES field into PChar cpNotes

cpNotes := ApTbl.GetStringEx( 'NOTES' );

C++Builder Example

// Read long NOTES field into PChar cpNotes

cpNotes = ApTbl->GetStringEx( "NOTES" );