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Subject: Reading files
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Date: Sun, 8-Nov-87 14:46:52 EST
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Help a beginner in Pascal??

Using Turbo Pascal on a PC - Is there a simple way (w/o parsing) to
read a file (on disk) where the values are a mixture of reals and
strings (on the same line). I DO know the layout, but only the maximum
length of the strings. For example the file might look like

22.33 0.1234 12.19
January 1.09
22.54 99.22 Strawberries
999.0 1.2345 Blueberries
1.1 2.2 Apples
    .
    .
    .
99.44 0.56 Ivory
0.0 0.0 LastAlpha

I need to be able to pull out the reals and the strings for further
processing.

Thanks in advance.