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From: thecloud@pnet06.cts.com (Ken Mcleod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LSP 2.0 FLAME
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Date: 9 Feb 89 21:02:10 GMT
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mikeoro@hubcap.UUCP (Michael K O'Rourke) writes:
>
>if a is of type string and i say :
>
>a := '5';
>
>it promptly dislikes
>
>a := a + '3';

  'a' is defined as an array of chars, not a pointer... you can't do
addition on arrays! If TP let you do this, that doesn't mean it's right,
or even standard. 

  Try instead the standard Pascal library function 'concat', as in:

a := '5';
a := concat(a, '3');  { now the string a is '53' }

-k
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