Turbo Pascal is an old software development system including a compiler and an integrated development environment for the Pascal programming language running on CP/M, CP/M-86, and DOS.
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Finding maximum salary value with Pascal Record
I've written a programm which fill the different data about workers into the table. (Name, last Name and salary)
Help me write a procesure or function which look for the maximum salary value and a name of this worker and write it in console
Can i…
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Working with strings in Pascal
Please. help me determine how many small and big letters "s" and the sign "=" occurs in a given text. Print lines in which these characters are missing.
How do I implement validation text and how to recognize the line where there is no such…
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exclamation marks in text file with Pascal
I have s problem!
I have to define the number of exclamation marks that are in even rows in the text file "T"
Also I have to print lines in which these characters more than two
My programm must be right but PascalABC shows me an error in line #3-…
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Two-dimensional array algorithm with arithmetic mean
help me with program
I have to find arithmetic mean of the positive elements of each column of the matrix A [5, 4]
provided that in each column there is at least one positive element
I've already tried to do it but I cannot understand the…
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Turbo Pascal BGI Error: Graphics not initialized (use InitGraph)
I'm making a Turbo Pascal 7.0 program for my class, it has to be on Graphic Mode.
A message pops up
BGI Error: Graphics not initialized (use InitGraph).
I'm already using InitGraph and graph.tpu and I specified the route as "C:\TP7\BGI".
My S.O…
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Turbo Pascal for DOS - How to get the current timezone offset
I need to make a modification to a legacy app written in Turbo Pascal 7 which requires me to find out the current timezone offset. The program runs in a DOS box in a 32-bit XP environment.
Anybody know of a way of doing this?
** EDIT **
I…
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Performance of different local variables in Pascal
We have three programs with procedure.
In proc01:
output: a=22
In proc02:
output: a=16 b=2 c=5
In proc03:
output: a=5
proc01 and 03 are the same. Except that we changed the procedure parameters
Why in the proc01 "d" value added, but at proc03,…
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Turbo Pascal 3.0 compile from command-line
Is it possible to compile (to a COM file) from the command-line using Turbo Pascal 3.0? No matter what arguments I try with TURBO it launches the IDE.
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Application shows nothing or bug with unhandled exception
I have to write procedure for euler's method to differential equations in Pascal. I have this:
program Euler_proc;
{$mode objfpc}{$H+}
uses
{$IFDEF UNIX}{$IFDEF UseCThreads}
cthreads,
{$ENDIF}{$ENDIF}
Classes
{ you can add units after…
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Pascal - Set background to white (not grey, pure white)
Is it possible to set console background in Pascal to pure white?
I'm no satisfied with
TextBackground(White);
I can use WinApi functions if that changes anything.
I know that background in console can be set to pure white (not grey). I once saw…
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Why does the compiler expect ")" where I've put "," in my function declaration?
In my AS-level computing course we're using Turbo Pascal, and for extension work I've been given the task of making a Blackjack/21 style card game. I decided to make a unit for general card game data structures:
unit CardLib;
interface
type
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Is there a python equivalent of ['A'..'Z'] in turbo pascal
Like the topic, is there a (quick) way, possibly a notation, to achieve the same effect as in turbo pascal to rapid make a list of all elements containing and between 'A' and 'Z'.
In turbo pascal it could be written as ['A'..'Z']
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How to return a set as function result
What I have
In TurboPascal I have defined an enumerated type TState and a set TStateS of this type.
type
TState = (CS_Type1, CS_Type2, CS_Type3, CS_Type4 );
TStateS = set of TState;
Also I have a function doing some calculation that should…
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how do I rectify this switch case error in pascal?
This is a pascal program that returns factor . rate is the input which is given by the user.
This program is throwing me error.
please do have a look and help.
I want to rectify the error.
I'm not able to find out the error since im very new to…
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Turbo Pascal 7.0 - Using operator OR with numbers
I know that OR is an operator for Boolean operands. But when I use it with numbers I get surprising and unexpected results instead of an error. For example:
program test;
uses crt;
begin
clrscr;
writeln(1 or 2);
writeln(2 or…
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