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From: "Jerry" <lanceboyle@qwest.net>
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Subject: Re: STRING length
Date: 16 Nov 2006 00:25:24 -0800
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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