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From: "Cameron Hodge" <vampyre@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Strings and reading from a file
Date: 1999/05/12
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Hey guys and girls

I know this is pretty simple but I have to read some strings in from a file.
I have declared the type to be

Firstname : String of length 1..20

I can read the string in fine, no probs there, but if the string is under
the 20 characters I get rubbish in the remaining string positions. Now I got
around this by assigning firstname := " <20 spaces>" however when I now
display this string to the screen, it displayes the full 20 characters. How
to do I remove the training Space's ????



Now I know I get the length of the string when I read it in and can declare
the varialle there and then, but I am reading in many strings all of
different lengths into an array.

hmm I hope everyone can understand this.

Thanks

vampyre@ozemail.com.au