Hi,

silly question but I can't find the answer anywhere...

How do I initialize a variable of the type : textfile ? I keep getting the following hints from the compiler using FPC but I can't figure it out.

Hint: Local variable "inFile" does not seem to be initialized

It's been ages since I've used Pascal and I know I'm missing something but I can't find the answer. "inFile" is of the type textfile. Of course, everything works, it's just I am old school and like it when I run the compiler and get no warnings or hints.

Is there somewhere I'm not looking for the information ?

Kind regards
Ewald Horn
South Africa

Hi Jonas,

thanks for the answer! I had this horrible nightmare that I am writing icky code that was going to crash and burn on me some time. The mailing seems extremely quiet, is everyone very smart or is there another reason for it ? I'm not even sure if I can post questions about Pascal programming to this list.

Regards
Ewald Horn

It is because the text/file parameter of assign() is a "var" parameter, and "var" means that the input should already be valid. For some reason, all the assign() variants are defined as

Procedure Assign({$ifdef PARAOUTFILE}out{$else}var{$endif}
t:Text;const s:String);

I don't know why this "PARAOUTFILE" is never defined (maybe a bug in the compiler which causes problems when defining a text/file parameter as "out"?)

Jonas

The mailing seems extremely quiet, is everyone very smart or is there another reason for it ? I'm not even sure if I can post questions about Pascal programming to this list.

The lists changed server machines in the past week. Only today most services should be fully up and running again.