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From: jordan@aero.org (Larry M. Jordan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: case (string) of
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.000634.10746@aero.org>
Date: 6 Jun 91 00:06:34 GMT
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What's the big deal?  How about a hash table of (name,value) pairs?

  case hash_table.get_value(name) of
    {acceptable labels}
  end;

Where get_value returns the value part of the association.

Seems simple enough.

--Larry