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Most nonprinting characters in your input are also illegal, except in character constants and character strings. Except for the tab and formfeed characters, which are used to format the program, nonprinting characters in the input file print as the character ? in your listing.
String ErrorsEncountering an
Unmatched ' for string.
Also, anything enclosed in double quotes (for example, "hello") is treated as a comment and is, therefore, ignored.
Programs containing # characters (other than in column 1 or in
Pascal requires digits in real statements b := .075; and diagnostics in Pascal:
numbers before the decimal point. Thus, the c :=
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These constructs are also illegal as data input to variables in read statements whose arguments are variables of type real, single, shortreal, double,
and longreal.
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