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From: led@athena.mit.edu (Jay Jungalwala)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Getstring (help!)
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Date: 27 Jan 89 04:42:29 GMT
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Reply-To: led@athena.mit.edu (Jay Jungalwala)
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Hi there,
	I was tring to write my own version of getstring, but I failed to a
point.  Could someone mail me there version of it, or just tell me what
is wrong with mine.

BELOW THIS LINE IN MY PROBLEM
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	I got it to take in values but my problem is that I don't know how
to tell it to stop inputing for characters, because I am useing a packed
array.  Confused? Ok!:

I set the packed array to input 70 characters.
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const MaxLetter = 70;

type GetString = packed array [1..MaxLetter] of char;
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	Well it inputs everything fine in the packed array, but what if
the input is less then 70 characters, how do I tell it to stop waiting
for input, and just print the characters that it has.

	If you are still confused, you could mail me back, and I can
just mail you the program and you can see for yourself what is wrong.


	Thanks, (will take all replys.)

						-JJ

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