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From: aries@rhi.hi.is (Reynir Hugason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Converting COMP to EXTENDED to STRING
Keywords: SANE CONVERSION FUNCTION PASCAL MPW
Message-ID: <1861@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 23 Jul 90 11:00:56 GMT
References: <1990Jul22.180337.17771@altitude.CAM.ORG>
Distribution: comp
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>FUNCTION Number2Str(var ExtendedNumber:Extended):DecStr;
                     ^^^

Your headache lies in the VAR part of your function declaration. The
Pascal compiler can easily transform an INTEGER or a COMP to an
Extended, but transforming an EXTENDED to an INTEGER is a bit harder
than that. If that's what you want to do you'll have to use SANE's
Num2Integer or Num2Comp.

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