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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
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Subject: Re: Getting length of string
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Date: 19 Jul 88 23:46:39 GMT
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In article <950012@hpclldw.HP.COM> ldw@hpclldw.HP.COM (Larry Woods) writes:
}sizeof() is not standard Pascal.  It does not exist in all implementations.

Neither is the string datatype.  In VAX Pascal on VMS, the string datatype
is a record containing two fields (the length and actual content) rather than
an array.
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