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8.2.5 Strings Types

There are several ways to use strings in GNU Pascal. One of them is the use of the intrinsic string type `String' which is a predefined schema type. The schema discriminant of this type holds the maximal length, which is of type Integer, so values up to MaxInt can be specified. For `String', an assignment is defined. There are many built-in functions and procedures for comfortable strings handling.

@@ ???? String procedures and functions.

Another way to use strings is to use arrays of type `Char'. For these, an intrinsic assignment is defined as well. Besides, `String' and `Char' are assignment compatible. The preferred way, however, is `String' because of the numerous possibilities for string handling.



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