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From: cs211s65@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Cs211s65)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: uppercase and char and string[1];
Keywords: help.. me..
Message-ID: <5477@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 00:34:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: uhccux.5477
Organization: University of Hawaii
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Aloha Networld,
  First I would like to thank all of you who responded to my question
about how to get a run on to the printer. Sorry about the flamefest I
created. 
 My problem, or more like question: Since my pascal teacher here in 
Hawaii has a thing against turbo Pascal, she doesnt allow, or takes off
points if one uses non-standard commands, So.. when I declare a string,
I have to declare it as type packed array [1..10] of char. My question  
is, how would I change a string of that type to an all upper case string,
the way she instructed us to do it is by writing it to a file, and reading
it character by character so that you can get an upper case by the 
formula chr(character+(ord('a') - ord('A')) (something like that) but 
I KNOW there has to be an easier way (in standard pascal) any help would
be appreciated. 
 Secondly, Despite my teacher's dislike of Turbo Pascal, I broke down and
used a STRING[1] type, BUT, when I try to use ord or chr functions it
gave me a TYPE MISMATCH error, so I wanted to make it into a char character.
so I char_letter := string_letter; but the compiler would now accept it.
How do I make a single length STRING[1] type character to a CHAR character?
Please help..  
					ALoha and Mahalo from Sunny Hawaii!
					edward Yagi AKA edman!

ps. conoutptr := lstoutptr  works the best!
 t h a n k  y o u  v e r y  m u c h ! ! !