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From: pfister_rob@rangly.dec.com (full moon today)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: pascal strings
Message-ID: <8805021136.AA05274@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 2 May 88 14:30:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Lines: 41

> decwrl!labrea!rutgers!elbereth.rutgers.edu!elkins writes
 
>Is there a way in VAX Pascal to define a procedure that will take
>a variable length quoted string as a parameter?  

>Example of what I want to do:
 
>     foo('This is a string of any length');  {User-written procedure foo}
 
>Examples of what I am avoiding:
 
>     foo(PackedArrayName, StringLength);  {Packed array and string length}
> or
>     foo(String.Body, String.Length);  {Record with packed array and integer}
 
What I do is...

TYPE 
    STRING=VARYING[255] OF CHAR;
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VAR
   bar:STRING:='blah blah blah';

PROCEDURE foo(line:STRING);
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  v=LENGTH(line);  (* if I wanna know the length of the string...*)
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Is this what you mean?

Disclaimer:  This posting was generated by random line noise, not by official
             consenus of my employer...

|Robert Pfister           Digital Equipment Corp
|Email: Pfister_Rob%Dneast.dec@decwrl.dec.com