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From: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Help me (problems with strings)
Message-ID: <7310@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
Date: 18 Apr 91 16:34:02 GMT
References: <1991Apr18.020517.7767@javelin.sim.es.com>
Reply-To: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1991Apr18.020517.7767@javelin.sim.es.com> tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.com writes:
>I'm getting the error "Type mismatch" in the following:
>
>Procedure writ(txt:string);
> var huh:char;
> begin;
> for x:=1 to length(txt) do begin
>  huh:=copy(txt,x,1);              <---error occurs here

  Try huh := txt[i];

  This is the simplest approach. If you're feeling lucky, you
  might try huh := char(copy(txt,x,1)), but my gut feeling is
  that you'll still have the type mismatch error.
   
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Bob Beauchaine bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM 

C: The language that combines the power of assembly language with the 
   flexibility of assembly language.