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Char

Synopsis


type
  Char  { built-in type }

Description

The built-in type Char holds elements of the operating system's character set (usually ASCII). The Char type is a special case of ordinal type. Conversion between character types and ordinal types is possible with the built-in functions Ord and Chr.

Conforming to

Char is defined in ISO 7185 Pascal and supported by all known Pascal variants.

Example


program CharDemo;
var
  a: Char;
begin
  a := 'x';
  WriteLn (a)
end.

See also

Character Types, Ordinal Types, Type Casts, Ord, Chr.