Re: How to use associative arrays in Ada 2005?

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@arcor.de>]

On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 02:11 -0800, snoopysalive wrote:

> So, when I say "hash", I mean something Perl-like like
> "$hashname{key1}{key2} = 'something' ". Or something C++-like like "map
> <string,int> hashname; hashname["key1"] = 42;".

With Ada 2005, you have Ada.Containers.Hashed_Maps;

 hashname.insert("key1", 42);

See
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Containers#First_Example:_Maps
for an example.

The original Ada.Containers distribution at 
http://charles.tigris.org/

has a Containers tutorial linked at the bottom of the page.


>  I found many Ada-tutorials but most of them just list
> the contents of the built-in packages and don't explain how to use
> them. As a beginner this is confusing.

Maybe try John English's 
http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/ada/adacraft/contents.htm

It doesn't cover the Ada 2005 containers, though.