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Report #: 63454

Status: Closed

Format('%*s', [-10, 'hallo'] does not work

Project: Delphi

Build #: 11.0.2804.9245

Version: 11.2

Submitted By: Thomas Mueller

Report Type: Basic functionality failure

Date Reported: 6/18/2008 8:38:22 AM

Severity: Commonly encountered problem

Last Updated: 3/20/2012 2:24:39 AM

Platform: All platforms

Internal Tracking #: 261138

Resolution: Fixed (Resolution Comments)

Resolved in Build: : 15.0.3577.25497

Duplicate of: None

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Description

Format uses negative width specifier to left align a string within that width:

Format('%-10s', ['hallo']) -> 'hallo     '
Format('%10s', ['hallo']) -> '     hallo'

This works fine, but using the * placeholder for the width, as described in the online help, results in an access violation:

Format('%*s', [10, 'hallo']) -> '     hallo'
Format('%*s', [-10, 'hallo']) -> crashes

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