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Subject: Re: String literals and wide_string literals - how?
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 03:07 -0700, Gerd wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> if I have a string, then I can write a literal simply by writing
> "abcd". But if I want write a wide_string literal, how do it?


> Is there something like the L"xxx" in C?

   x: Wide_String := Wide_String'("xxx");
   y: Wide_String := "xxx";
   w: Wide_String := ('x', 'x', 'x');
   z: Wide_String := Wide_String'('x', 'x', 'x');

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Type_System
and
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types/array
try to explain.



-- Georg