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From: reagan@hiyall.enet.dec.com (John R. Reagan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Integer to String Conversion
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Date: 27 Sep 90 18:16:19 GMT
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In article <1990Sep26.082929.9182@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes...
>In article <24602@adm.BRL.MIL> chaudhury@physics.ucla.edu (CHAUDHURY, SHILADITYA) writes:
>>  I wonder if someone could point out a simple way to do integer to string
>>conversion in SUN Pascal. I generate a number that needs to be part of a 
>>filename in :
> 
>There is no trivial solution in a standard Pascal although the
>resulting code will be brief.  ...

The new Pascal standard (Extended Pascal) now has a standard method
to do this.  You use the WRITESTR builtin routine.  For example,

var i : integer;
    s : string(32);

  begin
  i := 35;
  writestr(s,i);
  writeln(s);
  end

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John Reagan
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