Prof Abimbola Olowofoyeku wrote:

On 10 Sep 00, at 3:52, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

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Does anyone have any code for converting an octal string to a numeric value?

Since `8#42' is the EP notation for octal numbers, you can do

ReadStr ('8#' + StringValue, IntegerVar);

Thanks. I'll try that (perhaps you might want to add some octal routines to one of the GPC units)?

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(It doesn't work with Val instead of ReadStr for "BP compatibility"...)

:-( I need to do this in a way that will work with other Pascal compilers (but being able to do it with GPC is a good start).

The above will only work with EP compilers (both `8#' and `ReadStr' are EP features). If it should compile with, say, BP, you'll probably have to "roll your own" since BP contains no support for octal numbers, AFAIK. (Of course, such a solution can easily be written such that it works with most Pascal compilers.)

Frank