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From: reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Another various question about TP 5.0
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.121539.5362@cs.eur.nl>
Date: 1 Dec 89 12:15:39 GMT
References: <303@usna.MIL>
Organization: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, dept. CS (Informatica)
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baldwin@usna.MIL (J.D. Baldwin) writes:

>Is there a good, clean way to convert the value of an enumerated ordinal
>type to a string value?

As far as I know, Turbo Pascal doesn't help you on this one. You have to
write a function yourself (for each enumeration) like (e.g.) this:
case v of
  carrots : s := 'carrots';
  .
  .
  .
end;
stringvalue := s

There are some pascals which do the conversion for you (I know
VAX-Pascal does it). If there is general Turbo Pascal solution I'd like
to hear about it.

Hope this helps -- Reino

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Reino R. A. de Boer
Erasmus University Rotterdam ( Informatica )
e-mail: reino@cs.eur.nl