CSvax:Pucc-H:Physics:hal@pur-ee.UUCP (09/30/83)
The REPORT specifies that a single character string is of type CHAR and that a string consisting of n>1 characters is of type ARRAY[0..n-1]OF CHAR. What about the null string: nullstr = ""; Since the REPORT says that a string of length n1 can be assigned to a string variable of length n2>n1 by padding with a null character, I propose the type be ARRAY[0..0]OF CHAR with nullstr[0] = 0C. What have others done? (It's too bad that all strings aren't extended with 0C. Also, 'x', type CHAR; "x" type string would have been nice but this is nitpicking) Hal Chambers Physics Dept. Purdue Univ. (...!pur-ee!pur-phy!hal)