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From: PRL@PSUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Parsing in Pascal
Message-ID: <89140.222228PRL@PSUVM>
Date: 21 May 89 02:22:28 GMT
Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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Anyone have any idea how to implement this (REXX-like) instruction:

     procedure parse(main_string, template : string);

     example: parse('Now is the time','first_word . third_on');

              would assign the global variable first_word to 'Now'
              and fourth_word to 'the time'

The question is really: Is there a way to treat a string as the name
of an actual variable?


                                         Thanks,

                                           Randy