Subj : Re: Silly question
To   : Bj”rn Felten
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Sun May 01 2005 10:23 pm

*** Quoting Bj”rn Felten from a message to Sean Dennis ***

BF>    Rather about ordinal expressions. A string can never be an OE. Try 
BF> Char, Byte or something more ordinal.

Embarrasingly enough, I discovered that out after I wrote the message by 
looking it up online. ;)  Turns out that Case..Of can only use ordinal 
expressions.  A little code wrangling and all works out.  However, now I'm 
having another problem.

I'm writing a little BBS list door for my system.  Nothing too hard.  But I'm 
getting a type mismatch error.  Let me explain a little more:

Here's the type and how I declare it:

Type
    BBS = Record
      BoardName : String[70];
      SysopName : String[40];
      Software  : String[30];
      Phone     : String[20];
      Telnet    : String[30];
      Hours     : String[15];
      URL       : String[68];
      Networks  : String[68];
      Comments  : String[68];
    End;

Var
    BBSFile : File of BBS;
    BBSR : BBS;

(BBSR is short for BBSRecord)

Now, when I first tried to use this:

 Inpt(Temp, 40, 14, 9);
    BBSR.SysopName := Temp;

(Inpt is a special routine for input in the doorkit I'm using.  The Temp 
variable is a string.)

When I did:

  Inpt(BBSR.SysopName, 40, 14, 9);

I got "Type mismatch" errors.  Okay, so I worked around it using the above 
routine.

When I tried:

  Write(BBSFile, BBSR.BoardName);

I got the error again.

Forgive my silly questions as I haven't touched the compiler in about a year 
really on a new project, but why am I getting those errors when that particular 
variable is declared as a string, yet I can't write it to a file of the same 
type?

I have problems grasping simple solutions now due to a variety of causes, but 
I'm just not understanding why it's not working.  I'm sure it's something 
stupid that I'm not seeing.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Sean

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