"Richard Ward" <row...@mac.com> wrote in message news:6707d87e-2ea6-4469-97a5-cf55d1a04...@mac.com... As a user of the old Macintosh Pascal (later THINK Pascal), both ReadStr and WriteStr functions were included and I used them quite a bit. The names were different but the FPC implementation is basically the same as far as I can tell.
Besides backward compatibility, portability issues and personal preference, is there any functionality Val and Str may have that ReadStr and WriteStr don't? I can't see any, but wanted to make sure there there were no subtle technical issue(s) I might need to consider. Thank you for implementing these functions. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal Hi Richard, I don't know about the Macintosh Pascal ReadStr and WriteStr routines (never used them), but a 'possible' gotcha is that I think the Str() function will append a space at the beginning of a value to leave room for the sign if negative... if you don't want that then you can use the Format routine instead: Integer to string: s := Format('%d',[<some integer number>]); float to string: s := Format('%.4f',[<some floating point number>]); //formats a floating point number to 4 decimal places (just change, or remove if you want scientific notation I think) I hope this helps :) cheers, Paul _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
