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From: "Jerry" <lanceboyle@qwest.net>
Subject: Re: STRING length
Date: 16 Nov 2006 00:25:24 -0800
Date: 2006-11-16T00:25:24-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1163665524.440261.7400@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1163544675.070347.64490@h54g2000cwb.googlegroups.com


markww wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How does one use a variable length string in ada? I created a record
> like:
>
You might like the ability to define Borland-style strings. You can
download a package containing such from here:
http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/gdm/gsoft.htm

>From here http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/gdm/pascada.htm it seems
that the gist of it is thus:

  type BorString( maxlength: positive ) is record
    length: Natural:= 0;
    s: String( 1..maxlength );
  end record;

Jerry




  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-11-16  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-14 22:51 STRING length markww
2006-11-14 22:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-11-15  0:44   ` markww
2006-11-15  1:09     ` markww
2006-11-15  1:21       ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-11-15  1:29       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-15  2:13         ` markww
2006-11-15  1:17     ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-11-15  1:27 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-11-15 16:28 ` Martin Krischik
2006-11-16  8:25 ` Jerry [this message]
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1998-10-01  0:00 String Length mincus
1998-10-02  0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-02  0:00   ` Ehud Lamm
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