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From: RDK%vm.temple.edu@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Robert Keiser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Converting Strings to Char
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Date: 17 Feb 89 17:01:30 GMT
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A string of size 1 and a char are not the same size.  It is easiest to think
of a variable defined as a string[n] to be a packed array [0..n] of Char.
the 0th element contains the size of the string in character form.  You can
get the length of the string by using the ORD function. i.e. ORD(string[0])
is equal to the length of the string. (thats what the Length function does.)

So, a string of size 1 is really 2 elements long while a CHAR is only one
element.

I don't know if this helps but it was the first thing that caught my eye.


Robert Keiser
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