[fpc-pascal] Name of a var

michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be
Mon Nov 21 14:08:43 CET 2011



On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, Rainer Stratmann wrote:

> Is it possible to get information of the name of a var?
>
> For Example.
>
> var
> counter : longint;
> varname : shortstring;
>
> varname := nameofvar( counter );
>
> The content of varname then is 'counter'.

There is no way in Pascal. Conceivably, you can make such a function that
returns the name when debug info is included in the binary.

Michael.



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