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From: TBC101@PSUVM.BITNET (TomShark Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: uppercase and char and string[1];
Message-ID: <89321.122908TBC101@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 17 Nov 89 17:29:08 GMT
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In article <5477@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, cs211s65@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
(Cs211s65) says:
> 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?
>
The following shows how to assign a string of length 1 to a character:

Program X;
Var       SmallStr :String[1];
          Character:Char;
Begin
    ...
    Character := SmallStr[1];
    ...
End.

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Tom "Shark" Collins       Since ICS is comprised of 2 people, my views
tbc101@psuvm.psu.edu      are the opinion of at least 50% of the company.