Most elegant way to extract substring until first SPACE

[Delphard]

This is prosaic task, but I'm interesting for shortest possible code...

 

[Zathras]

Something like this?

   Copy(s,1,Pos(' ',s))

 

[whosrdaddy]

remember that you must test for space in the string before executing zathras' code

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[Zathras]

Or use try...except

 

[whosrdaddy]

would be an expensive way for something simple....

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[Delphard]

@Zathras
That's it!
One comment:
Interesting, same result is get with:
Copy(s,0,Pos(' ',s));
How it's possible? What is String.Index[0]? Maybe length of a string!?

@whosrdaddy
In my case I'm sure that string contains SPACE, but your remark is right.