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From: d87-jse@nada.kth.se (Joakim Sernbrant)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Enumerated types in TP40
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Message-ID: <731@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 10 Jan 89 20:10:10 GMT
References: <363@lafcol.UUCP>
Reply-To: d87-jse@nada.kth.se (Joakim Sernbrant)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <363@lafcol.UUCP> pilgrimk@lafcol.UUCP (Guru Jee) writes:
>How can the number of elements in an enumerated type be determined?
>
> e.g. type
>          Enum1 = (One, Two, Three, Four);
>          Enum2 = (_One, _Two, _Three);
>
>I would like to get a value of 4 for the no. of elements in any 
>variable declared as "Enum1" and 3 for those declared as "Enum2". Is
>this possible?

I believe something like sizeof(Enum1) div sizeof(Enum1(ord(One))) will do the
trick, but I'm unable to test this right now...
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