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From: abcscagz@csuna.csun.edu (Jeff Boeing)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: type conversion question
Message-ID: <2027@csuna.csun.edu>
Date: 31 May 89 23:54:24 GMT
Reply-To: abcscagz@csuna.csun.edu (Jeff Boeing)
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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I couldn't find this anywhere in Wirth's book (4th edition), so here goes:

How do you convert from a cardinal or integer type to an enumerated type?
I would like very much to keep a particular enumerated type in a program I'm
writing, but this program requires that some data of that type be written to
and read from a file.  If x is of my enumerated type, it's easy enough to save
it to a file by saying "WriteInt (ORD(x))" (after redirecting output, of
course), but how do I read that value back in?

Enquiring minds want to know!

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