String type

The string type is used to represent text. It contains the character sequences. Unlike strings in other dialects of Pascal, strings in MIDletPascal are not equal to arrays of characters. MIDletPascal has few procedures and functions to work on strings. The following operators can be used on strings:

• Comparison operators: =, <> case-sensitive text comparison
• Concatenation operator: + the second operand can be string, integer, character or boolean type

Look at the example code:

  var text: string;
  begin
    text := 'It is now ' + getHour(getCurrentTime) + ' o''clock ';
    drawText(text, 0, 0);
    repaint;
    delay(2000);
  end.

To include the single-quote sign inside the string, write it twice so that MIDletPascal does not confuse it with the string-ending quote.