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From: dsrekml@prism.gatech.EDU (Mike Mitten)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: uppercase and char and string[1];
Message-ID: <3785@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 27 Nov 89 00:26:13 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 . . .

	If you were doing ord(String1Var) you were getting the type mismatch
because you are passing a string variable to a function which needs a char
variable.  This should be avoidable by using ord(String1Var[1]).

	Hope this helps,

	-Mike

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