This error occurs when you try to read a variable in a Read or Readln that is not of a legal type.
Check the type of the variable and make sure you are not missing a dereferencing, indexing or field selection operator.
program Produce; type TColor = (red,green,blue); var Color : TColor; begin Readln(Color); (*<-- Error message here*) end.
We cannot read variables of enumerated types directly.
program Solve; type TColor = (red,green,blue); var Color : TColor; InputString: string; const ColorString : array [TColor] of string = ('red', 'green', 'blue'); begin Readln(InputString); Color := red; while (color < blue) and (ColorString[color] <> InputString) do Inc(color); end.
The solution is to read a string, and look up that string in an auxiliary table. In the example above, we didn't bother to do error checking - any string will be treated as 'blue'. In practice, we would probably output an error message and ask the user to try again.
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