From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!sri-unix!MDP@su-score.arpa
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: Re: Help with IBM (Microsoft) Pascal
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1368
Posted: Wed May 11 04:41:02 1983
Received: Tue May 17 01:11:34 1983

From:  Mike Peeler <MDP@su-score.arpa>

    I have used Encode and Decode.  They take the forms:

	FUNCTION ENCODE
	  (VAR dest: LSTRING; source:field:radix): BOOLEAN;
	FUNCTION DECODE
	  (CONST source: STRING; VAR dest): BOOLEAN;

This means you have to code it something like

	IF NOT ENCODE (dest_string, int_val::16)
	  THEN <handle error>

    For what you want, I believe you will have to write your
own decoder.  The manual says that DECODE "works exactly the
same as the READ procedure, including the use of M and N
parameters," and that "M and N values in READ are ignored."
The fact that "non-decimal notation (16#C007, 8#74, 10#19,
2#101, #Face) is accepted" indicates that the base will be
determined by the input, not by your program.
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