Your parser is one character off.
(Try adding [code]writeln('Parsed: ', city, ' ', temp, ' (', t, ')');[/code] right before [code]t1:=temp;[/code] to see what I mean.)

writeln('Parsed: ', city, ' ', temp, ' (', t, ')');

t1:=temp;

okay, i fixed that, but it still says that I'm always outputting 'Waterloo'

The val method has the following prototype:
[code]procedure Val(const s: string; var v; var code: word);[/code]
It takes the string s and tries converting it into a number, held by v. If it fails, it stores the position of the failure in code. (If it succeeds, Code is set to zero.)

Add the snippet I asked you to attach to your code and run it against the sample data. What is the problem?

procedure Val(const s: string; var v; var code: word);

i got it now, thank you.

You could read in the whole line and then parse it yourself and use the Val function to convert a string to an integer. Or you could use this: [url=http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/sscanf.html]http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/sysutils/sscanf.html[/url]

The website has too little information. Can you explain to me how to use it in the code to read in stuff? I still don't get it.

You could also read StealthAdept's suggestion (which you will find at the bottom of this page). I think the page I linked you to does give you enough information, but if you haven't learned pointers yet, then I guess it might not make that much sense. StealthAdept's suggestion is better anyway.

Okay, so it's repeating read(char) until char=' ' and then keep adding to a string right? And after that, readln. Thank you.

"You can also try reading individual characters and putting them at the end of a string until you get to a space, at which point you read an integer."

yeah...about that...my code still doesnt work...check it for me plz?

yeah kk i got it
thnx to brian
Ur Awesome :) btw, wat grade r u in?

I graduated from Woburn last year. I'm a first-year university student now.

found the problem...this problem is a pain :sad:

found the problem...this problem is a pain

Yes, although it's not necessary for this problem. And I advise you to try things before you ask us if they'll work or not.

i did try..but it didnt work. btw...this is pascal

Evidently, the problem with your submissions is not that you aren't allowed to have arrays of strings, but rather what is discussed below, the difficulty of reading the input in Pascal.

Also, an array of 10000 strings won't compile in Turbo Pascal - that uses too much memory. An array of 200 strings would fit, though.

Aarg, I was going to submit a fast C++ solution, but I've exceeded the 3/5 ptr limit.

Basically it's because C++ strings are slow.

read in the string and parse it manually. i.e. separate the string and number yourself.

the reason you can't do something like this (It's been  while since I coded in pascal),

readln(city,temperature).

is because PAscal doesn't not recognize spaces as "separation" between input for strings, so youw ould end up with the whole input line in one string.

You can also try reading individual characters and putting them at the end of a string until you get to a space, at which point you read an integer.

Never mind, what I said doesn't work on pascal i think. you'd have to read until you get a '-' or a number. Just do what bosco said.