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# Ord

Return ordinal value of an ordinal type.

## Declaration

Source position: system.fpd line 47

`function Ord(`
`X: TOrdinal`
`):LongInt;`

## Description

Ord returns the Ordinal value of a ordinal-type variable X.

Historical note:

Originally, Pascal did not have typecasts and ord was a necessary function in order to do certain operations on non-integer ordinal types. With the arrival of typecasting a generic approach became possible, making ord mostly obselete. However ord is not considered deprecated and remains in wide use today.

## Errors

None.

## See also

Chr |  | Convert byte value to character value
Succ |  | Return next element of ordinal type.
Pred |  | Return previous element for an ordinal type.
High |  | Return highest index of open array or enumerated
Low |  | Return lowest index of open array or enumerated

## Example

    Program Example45;

    { Program to demonstrate the Ord,Pred,Succ functions. }

    Type
      TEnum = (Zero, One, Two, Three, Four);

    Var
      X : Longint;
      Y : TEnum;

    begin
      X:=125;
      Writeln (Ord(X));  { Prints 125 }
      X:=Pred(X);
      Writeln (Ord(X));  { prints 124 }
      Y:= One;
      Writeln (Ord(y));  { Prints 1 }
      Y:=Succ(Y);
      Writeln (Ord(Y));  { Prints 2}
    end.

Documentation generated on: Feb 26 2014