Percent sign: what changed

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Title: Percent sign

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1	+	<div style="float:right; margin: 0 25px 20px 0; padding:40px; font-size:500%; font-family: Georgia; background-color: #f9f9f9; border: 2px solid #777777;">
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3	+	%
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5	+	</div>
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7	+	In [[ASCII]], the character code decimal `37` (or [[Hexadecimal\|hexadecimal]] `25`) is defined to be `%` .
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9	+	The symbol `%` (pronounced "percent sign") is used in [[Pascal]]:
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11	+	- it indicates a [[Binary numeral system\|binary numeral expression/number]].
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13	+	The percent sign also appears in Lazarus [[IDE directives]] of the form `{%directive}`
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15	+	## Example
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17	+	``` pascal
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19	+	program simple_binary_digit;
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21	+	var b:byte;
22	+	begin
23	+	b := %1010011;
24	+	writeln (b);
25	+	writeln (binStr(b,8));
26	+	writeln ;
27	+	writeln ('Press [Enter] to finish');
28	+	readln;
29	+	end.
30	+	```
31	+
32	+	The output prints as follows:
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34	+	`83`\
35	+	`01010011`\
36	+	` `\
37	+	`Press [enter] to finish`
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39	+	> Note: Binary number literals are not supported in [[Mode Delphi\|{$mode Delphi}]] and [[Mode TP\|{$mode TP}]].
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41	+	## See also
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43	+	- `function` [[doc:rtl/system/binstr.html\|binStr]] - Convert [[Integer\|integer]] to [[String\|string]] with binary representation.
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45	+	---
46	+	From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Percent sign", as it stood on 2022-08-06 after a change by Kai Burghardt, 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).