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Subject: Modula-2 - Strings
Message-ID: <1036@pur-phy.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Sep-83 12:44:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1036
Posted: Fri Sep 30 12:44:40 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Oct-83 06:01:56 EDT
Organization: Purdue University Physics Dept.
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The REPORT specifies that a single character string is of type CHAR and
that a string consisting of n>1 characters is of type ARRAY[0..n-1]OF CHAR.
What about the null string:
	nullstr = "";
Since the REPORT says that a string of length n1 can be assigned to a
string variable of length n2>n1 by padding with a null character, I propose
the type be ARRAY[0..0]OF CHAR with nullstr[0] = 0C.  What have others done?
(It's too bad that all strings aren't extended with 0C.  Also, 'x', type
CHAR; "x" type string would have been nice but this is nitpicking)


				Hal Chambers
				Physics Dept.
				Purdue Univ.
				(...!pur-ee!pur-phy!hal)