From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.unit0.net!peer03.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 11:44:47 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: "strings are delimited by double quote character", where there's a character variable Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:44:48 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: <11532d5283s7dg5im3ndokq8k1a9pt0al7@4ax.com> References: <8f8f88d8-b9f6-492e-991a-283509b21696@googlegroups.com> <7p332d5p7jv6gv74m83kk47rj8j7cnvbj8@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.68.176.112 X-Trace: sv3-WWI539ASC8ZoYPJc0OjOVTTqzrPl4jWfsxrRSdJuR6ekOQTmj2DL+94/utLUmHJUsudOmHSS7/hO3dX!drqpb8Zyw+GY9slnuD+pO4Q8BWMilz/9mb3vJOsmpDHNnDbnkpIfDqMWARunGeNA7QdIA0gaEikS!3WRLFxVxX0Xe5pRzlWq+93KtF7jB X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1801 X-Received-Bytes: 1923 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3345384555 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:49310 Date: 2017-12-01T12:44:48-05:00 List-Id: On Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:23:28 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber declaimed the following: > I see nothing wrong with the above. There are NO " characters in the >example. There are pairs of ' characters, which are used to delimit >CHARACTER -- which would be obvious by just stepping the cursor through >them. > > An empty string would be... := ""; And a small mea culpa -- I've not had to use character, so overlooked that empty character is invalid. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/