A record allows you to keep related data items in one structure. If
you want information about a person, you may want to know name, age, city,
state, and zip.
To declare a record, you'd use:
TYPE
TypeName
= record
identifierlist1
:
datatype1;
...
identifierlistn
:
datatypen;
end;
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For example:
type
InfoType = record
Name : string;
Age : integer;
City, State :
String;
Zip : integer;
end;
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Each of the identifiers Name, Age, City, State, and Zip are referred to
as fields. You access a field within a variable by:
VariableIdentifier.FieldIdentifier
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A period separates the variable and the field name.
There's a very useful statement for dealing with records. If you are
going to be using one record variable for a long time and don't feel like
typing the variable name over and over, you can strip off the variable name
and use only field identifiers. You do this by:
WITH
RecordVariable
DO
BEGIN
...
END;
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Example:
with Info do
begin
Age := 18;
ZIP := 90210;
end;
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