Percent sign: what changed

Revision 1 to 2. Removed lines have a minus sign; added lines have a plus 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;">~~
2		-
3	1		%
4		-
5		-	~~</div>~~
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7	3		In [[ASCII]], the character code decimal `37` (or [[Hexadecimal\|hexadecimal]] `25`) is defined to be `%` .
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9	5		The symbol `%` (pronounced "percent sign") is used in [[Pascal]]:
10	6
11	7		- it indicates a [[Binary numeral system\|binary numeral expression/number]].
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13	9		The percent sign also appears in Lazarus [[IDE directives]] of the form `{%directive}`
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15	11		## Example
16	12
17	13		``` pascal
18	14
19	15		program simple_binary_digit;
20	16
21	17		var b:byte;
22	18		begin
23	19		b := %1010011;
24	20		writeln (b);
25	21		writeln (binStr(b,8));
26	22		writeln ;
27	23		writeln ('Press [Enter] to finish');
28	24		readln;
29	25		end.
30	26		```
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32	28		The output prints as follows:
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34	30		`83`\
35	31		`01010011`\
36	32		` `\
37	33		`Press [enter] to finish`
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39	35		> Note: Binary number literals are not supported in [[Mode Delphi\|{$mode Delphi}]] and [[Mode TP\|{$mode TP}]].
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41	37		## See also
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43	39		- `function` [[doc:rtl/system/binstr.html\|binStr]] - Convert [[Integer\|integer]] to [[String\|string]] with binary representation.
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45	41		---
46	42		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).