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Mike:

I've been programming high-level languages for over 25 years. I appreciate
the beginner help anyways. You should know however that there is very little
a programmer cannot do if they are willing to get their hands dirty and get
into the nitty gritty of the machine. Also, building a string in the manner
you describe does not allow for the "tabbing" function built into writeln
 aVariableAnyType:8 ).

What I do NOT know much about is PC/ASM coding (my experience is mostly
mainframe). Maybe if someone knows how the compiler does this complex
(variable-multiple) parameter stuff it could be adapted into an external
unit or even maybe somehow the code could be "borrowed" or "piggy-backed"
from the compiler via a reverse-patch or proc-ptr ? Anybody know how to do
this in TP7 ?

If I create a new texfile, writeln a complex parameter as a line to that
file, then reset and readln back that data as a string I can accomplish what
I want. What I would like is a way to do this as a single function without
accessing the disk. Barring the single function, what about a simple routine
to create a small "virtual file" in RAM big enough to handle a string
variable?





Mike Copeland wrote in message ...
>   First, you, the programmer, cannot create Pascal subprograms with
>variable numbers of parameters - only the compiler maker can do such
>things.  However, if you're looking to "construct" a string of substrings
>(such as your example shows), you can use the Concat function or the "+"
>operator.  For example:
>
>Var S1,S2 : string;
>...
>  S2 := 'This is a substring.');
>  S1 := 'Hello, '+'World! '+S2
>
>> In another Pascal there was a function that I would like to recreate:
>>
>> function StringOf ( ** SPECIAL ** ) : string;
>>
>> The SPECIAL part was a parameter that was virtually identical to the
>> parameter used by writeln(). That is to say that the following worked:
>>
>> TheCostStr := stringof ('Cost of item ' , ItemNameStr , ' = ' ,
>>  Price[ItemNumber] * Qty[ItemNumber] ) , '.');
>>
>> Any idea how to create a function that would allow such a parameter ?
>>