On Saturday 29 November 2003 13:32, you wrote: > > >>here is just another approach. > > > > > > I'll have a look at that as well. Why doesn't the compiler have the > > > ability to read a word? All of this extra code needed because I have to > > > read words one character at a time! It would be the single most useful > > > addition. I don't understand why compilers have no problems reading > > > multi-digit numbers in one hit, but can't do the same with words. > > > > I guess for several reasons: > > - it would require char set handling, only a minority uses only a-z as > > possible chars in words > > That means you define what makes up a word. You could also simply define > what _separates_ a word ;-)
But, as Murphy predicts, that very separator will sooner or later appear within a valid word. @Donald: There ARE problems when reading numbers, e. g. "1000.0" is sometimes written as "1000,0", "1'000.0", "1,000.00" or even "1,000.--". It's a matter of negotiation: The more formal the text file, the easier it can be read by a program. Anton. ---------- Ing. Anton Tichawa Volkertstrasse 19 / 20 A-1020 Wien phone: +43 1 218 97 59 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- "Adas Methode war, wie sich zeigen wird, Tagträume in offenbar korrekte Berechnungen einzuweben." Doris Langley Moore: Ada, Countess of Lovelace (London 1977). ---------- _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
