As per my last question to the list, I'm sure there's a way to do this, but I'm not sure how. Last time I got a quick answer after I'd spent ages trying to work it out myself, so I'll ask first this time, instead of banging my head against the keyboard. :-)
I'll use the actual example I am working on, which relates to football games. If I have a file which contains on the first line... 49ers at Giants 16 13 I want to open a file called "49ers" and a file called "Giants" and do some processing. Although FP handles strings, I believe that you can still only read a character at a time, so I don't know how to read "49ers" into a variable and open that file. The variable would be called Away say, so how do I get "49ers" into Away so that I can then do assign(awayteam,Away)? I would then want to read "Giants" into Home, and do assign(hometeam,Home), and go from there. Some teams have the same initial, so just reading the first character fails to provide enough uniqueness. I know I could set up a complex set of embedded case statements (case first char -> case second char), but there's surely an easier way? That method would leave the team names hard-coded into the program, which isn't a very good way to do things. thanks, DONALD. E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] BIG DON's Home-page - http://jedi.apana.org.au/~jims_son Pedder Passer Rating - http://jedi.apana.org.au/~jims_son/PPR AusNFL mailing-list - http://jedi.apana.org.au/mailman/listinfo/ausnfl "What I always wanted is to be accepted, not understood" - MAN RAY _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
