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From: soper@xenna.UUCP (Pete Soper,,,)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: type conversion question
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Date: 1 Jun 89 15:32:40 GMT
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From article <2027@csuna.csun.edu>, by abcscagz@csuna.csun.edu (Jeff Boeing):
> 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?

  Read the ordinal and use it as an index to an array whose elements contain
the corresponding enumeration values. It is tiresome but portable since you
are the one doing the mapping.
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