Turbo Pascal - Sample Code

Sample Code

  • Pascal is not case sensitive.
  • Historically, Pascal comments are enclosed { within pairs of braces }, or (* left parenthesis/asterisk and asterisk/right parenthesis pairs *), and these can span any number of lines. Later versions of Borland Pascal also supported C++-style comments // preceded by two forward slashes, which finish at the end of the line.
  • The syntax for the statement case is more flexible than standard Pascal.
  • Sets may only have up to 256 (28) members.
  • Standard, fixed-length Pascal strings are supported, but there is also a more flexible String type.

This is the classic Hello world program in Turbo Pascal:

program HelloWorld; begin WriteLn('Hello World') end.

This asks for a name and writes it back to the screen a hundred times:

program WriteName; var i : Integer; {variable to be used for looping} Name : String; {declares the variable Name as a string} begin Write('Please tell me your name: '); ReadLn(Name); {ReadLn returns the string entered by the user} for i := 1 to 100 do begin WriteLn('Hello ', Name) end end.

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