Problem with compiling a program.

29 Nov 1998

      Hi,

I have a problem in that I need to compile a program where a function
is declared as type string.

Here is a sample

program test(input,output);
function getname: string;
begin
	getname := 'somestring';
end;
begin
end.

The compiler aborts with
parse error before 'String'

If I declare the function as char it compiles.

How do I get this to compile?

Please reply directly as I have just subscribed to the List.

I am using gpc version 2.0

Thanks in Anticipation

Andrew Cameron