Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpclisp!hpclldw!ldw From: ldw@hpclldw.HP.COM (Larry Woods) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: How to find declared length of strings in TP 4.0 ?? Message-ID: <950011@hpclldw.HP.COM> Date: 7 Jul 88 15:28:26 GMT References: <16378@brl-adm.ARPA> Organization: HP NSG/ISD Computer Language Lab Lines: 2 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.