Editing Pascal (programming language) (section)

===Record types===

An example of a Pascal record type:

:<syntaxhighlight lang="pascal">
type
     car = record
         length: integer;
         width: integer
     end;
</syntaxhighlight>

An example of a variant record type:

:<syntaxhighlight lang="pascal">
type
     Shape = (Circle, Square, Triangle);
     Dimensions = record
        case Figure: Shape of 
           Circle: (Diameter: real);
           Square: (Width: real);
           Triangle: (Side: real; Angle1, Angle2: 0..360)
        end;
</syntaxhighlight>

Variant records allow several fields of the record to overlap each other to save space.