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From: ldw@hpclldw.HP.COM (Larry Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: How to find declared length of strings in TP 4.0 ??
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Date: 7 Jul 88 15:28:26 GMT
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Do you mean at runtime?  The answer is that you don't.  It isn't stored
anywhere for implementations of Pascal I'm familiar with.  It is merely
passed as a value parameter to run time routines for checking purposes.