From: assemblywizard@gmail.com   
      
   ... well, you have given methods... none of which work...   
      
   ... forget giving me methods of getting a string one character at a time...   
   after you use any method, take the string and run val on it and write out   
   the real--it WILL be zero!   
      
   You seem to wish to teach me syntax... that is NOT what I am after...  and   
   here the matter hangs...   
      
   John   
      
   "Jim Higgins"  wrote in message   
   news:32qe91hl3ui8ep35dtcde02f3pgqdu9slo@4ax.com...   
   > On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:02:49 -0700, in   
   > <1pIle.19$5L5.959591@news.sisna.com>, "John Smith"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>my code was pseudocode... for example "getkey" would be "ReadKey" in an   
   >>actual pascal program--I just wrote it here... not to be compiled but as   
   >>an   
   >>example--at first I thought someone would just state a way and that would   
   >>be   
   >>the end of it--still no one has come up with code to do as I want...   
   >>   
   >>Warmest regards,   
   >>John   
   >   
   > John, several have given you all you need to complete your task,   
   > but you have rejected it - citing your expertise in other   
   > languages and seemingly insisting on doing it your way - which is   
   > too flawed to patch and needs a complete rewrite.  It's an utter   
   > disaster even as pseudocode.  You clearly can't write coherent   
   > pseudocode let alone Borland Pascal, and you are rejecting advice   
   > far more complete than mine, so I'm done with you.  Others'   
   > mileage may vary.   
   >   
      
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