[fpc-pascal] Pascal data flows

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, poof65 wrote:

> Hello mailing user.
> I'm a poor french guy who had a little problem ;-)
> I've read in a book that it was possible to redirect data flows to files.
> 
> After doing my research on google, i've found a webpage talking about it.
> http://www.ictp.trieste.it/~manuals/programming/sun/pascal/lang_ref/ref_io.doc.html#327
> 
> I've tried to make a little program with theses examples.
> 
> program test (output);
> begin
>         rewrite(output, 'test.txt');
> end.

That will not work. You'll need to do something like

 program test (output);

 begin
   Close(output);
   Assign(output, 'test.txt');
   Rewrite(output);
   Writeln('This should go to test.txt');
   Close(output); // don't forget this.
 end.

Here it works.

Michael.