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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Long strings in TP
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.051309.21673@uwasa.fi>
Date: 16 Feb 91 05:13:09 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.162333.24408@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> stone@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Glenn Stone) writes:
>
>What's the best way to implement a long string variable, say 600 chars?

Besides the obvious
  type longString = record
                      length : word; 
                      ch     : array [1..600] of char;
                    end;
see O'Brien, Turbo Pascal, the Complete Reference for lots of
longstring procedures.

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