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From: c_wilson@oxy.edu (Clarence Regis Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Fahrenheit Celcius HELP!
Message-ID: <51237@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 89 19:54:11 GMT
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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In article <16846@watdragon.waterloo.edu> someone writes:
>I need a simple piece of code to convert a string celsius/fahrenheit
>to a fahrenheit/celsius.....
>
>function convert: integer;
>var
>	 value : intger;
>	 letter: char;
>begin
>value := 0;

Here's where you missed an important point.  A while statement uses an
entry condition, as opposed to a repeat statement which will always
execute at least once.	A while statement may never execute.  You
should insert this line:

read(letter);