I'm trying to write routines that operate only on the selected lines in a
memo component. I'm confused because the 'SelText' property of TMemo is of
type 'string' , not 'strings'. If I want to process this selected text on a
line by line basis, must I first convert it to PChar or something like that?
Help, this is all new to me.
Mac

Michael,

The following example copies the selected text in a memo component (moMain)
to an edit component (edMain). Please note that when the selected text
contains multiple lines then the text copied will include CR/LF which
separate the lines.

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  edMain.Text:= Copy(moMain.Text, moMain.SelStart, moMain.SelLength);
end;

Hope this helps,
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If the selection contains more than one line then you can dissect it using an
intermediate TStringlist:

  var
    sl: TStringlist;
    i: integer;
  begin
    sl:= Tstringlist.create;
    try
      sl.text := memo1.seltext;
      for i:= 0 to sl.count-1 do
        ...something with sl[i]
    finally
      sl.free
    end;

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