Data field: what changed
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Title: Data field
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| 1 | + | Back to [[Data type|Data types]]. | |
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| 3 | + | A data field / variable is a reserved space (stack or heap) in the main memory (RAM) in which data is stored for repeated use. So that the data field / variable can be used, it must be assigned a specific data type . | |
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| 5 | + | Examples of assigning a data type to a data field / variable: | |
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| 7 | + | ``` pascal | |
| 8 | + | var | |
| 9 | + | i: integer; | |
| 10 | + | w: word; | |
| 11 | + | lw: longword; | |
| 12 | + | ch: char; | |
| 13 | + | str: string; | |
| 14 | + | boo: boolean; | |
| 15 | + | ``` | |
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| 17 | + | --- | |
| 18 | + | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Data field", as it stood on 2020-02-12 after a change by Trev, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* |