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From: marcos@allanon.UUCP (Marcos Della)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Help me (problems with strings)
Message-ID: <kZPa32w164w@allanon.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 91 12:02:55 GMT
References: <1991Apr18.221625.13529@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Allanon's Bar & Grill
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nmouawad@watmath.waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) writes:
> In article <1991Apr18.020517.7767@javelin.sim.es.com tpehrson@javelin.sim.es.
> 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
>   case huh of
>...

Try changing the case to:
   CASE txt[x] OF
or the previous line to:
   huh := txt[x];

Marcos


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