System.Inc Function

Increments an ordinal value by one or N.

Pascal

procedure Inc(var X); overload;
procedure Inc(var X; N: Longint); overload;

C++

Inc( X);
Inc( X, Longint N);

File

System

Description

In Delphi code, Inc adds one or N to the variable X.

X is a variable of an ordinal type (including Int64), or a pointer type if the extended syntax is enabled.

N is an integer-type expression.

X increments by 1, or by N if N is specified; that is, Inc(X) corresponds to the statement X := X + 1, and Inc(X, N) corresponds to the statement X := X + N. On some platforms, Inc may generate optimized code, especially useful in tight loops.

If X is a pointer type, it increments X by N times the size of the type pointed to. Thus, given

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type
  PMyType = ^TMyType;

and

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var
  P: PMyType;

the statement Inc(P) increments P by SizeOf(TMyType).

Warning: You can't use Inc on properties because it modifies the parameter.

Note: Inc(S, I) where S is a ShortInt and I is a number greater than 127 will cause an EIntOverFlow exception to be raised if range and overflow checking are on. In Delphi 1.0, this did not raise an exception.