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begin

Synopsis


begin
  statement;
  statement;
  ...
  statement
end;

Description

The reserved word begin opens a begin ... end statement which joins several statements to one compound statement.

Conforming to

begin is defined in ISO 7185 Pascal and supported by all known Pascal variants.

Example


program BeginDemo;
begin
  if True then
    WriteLn ('single statement');
  if True then
    begin                     { clamp statement1 ... }
      WriteLn ('statement1');
      WriteLn ('statement2')
    end                       { ... to statement2 }
end.

See also

Keywords, begin end Compound Statement, end