Re: read shows surprising results

Dirk Weber <dirk-weber@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I do not really understand where the mistake is: In my understanding of
> the read statement or in the book I use for self studying Pascal.
> 
> Here the program listing
> ..........
> 
> program selbsttest_s_25;
> uses crt;
> 
> var
> z1,z2:char;
> n1,n2:integer;
> 
> const
> cz1='z1';
> cz2='z2';
> cn1='n1';
> cn2='n2';
> 
> BEGIN
> clrscr;
> 
> writeln('Cooper/Clancy, Pascal, Braunschweig 1991, p. 25, Selbsttest');
> 
> z1:=' ';
> z2:=' ';
> n1:=0;
> n2:=0;
> 
> writeln('Please enter 123 a45b');
> read(n1,z1,z2,n2);
> writeln(z1:5,z2:5,n1:5,n2:5);
> writeln;
> END.
> ................
> 
> My problem
> 
> According to Cooper/Clancy the variables should have the following
> contents:
> 
> z1: A blank
> z2: 'A'
> n1: 123
> n2: 45
> 

FYI, GNU Pascal gives the expected result (of course with lowercase
'a').

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                              Waldek Hebisch
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