[fpc-pascal] character escaping with ^LETTER

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2015-01-19 14:17 GMT+01:00 Dmitry Boyarintsev <skalogryz.lists at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> today I saw this kind of character escaping:
> var
>   a :char;
> begin
>   a:=^M; // char(13)
>   writeln(^X);  // char(24)
> end;
>
> The code of the character is derived as ord(letter)-ord('A')+1
> Not sure which pascal its inherited from... but Delphi 7 does compile it
> too.
>
> I vaguely remember it seeing before once .. and ... a lot of time ago.
>

IIRC good old Turbo Pascal had this too.

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Frederic Da Vitoria
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