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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,da3af210412d89fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Range types From: Georg Bauhaus In-Reply-To: <1193051690.350063@athprx04> References: <1192994157.867598@athprx04> <471bb318$0$27835$39db0f71@news.song.fi> <471BC497.5060601@gmail.com> <1193051690.350063@athprx04> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1193056433.32681.4.camel@kartoffel> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:33:53 +0200 Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Oct 2007 14:33:25 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 2e4c6ab2.newsspool2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=b125EBMAcmL2:OR3:3gaE@A9EHlD;3YcB4Fo<]lROoRA4nDHegD_]RE4ZM9d3O X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2540 Date: 2007-10-22T14:33:25+02:00 List-Id: On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 14:14 +0300, Christos Chryssochoidis wrote: > For this it would be nice if there were some > package for regular expressions for Ada. The Strings hierarchy actually has some RE processing routines, at least if you consider types for character ranges and character sets, together with subprograms that scan strings for occurrences of characters from these sets. If you have GNAT, a non-portable Ada solution can well be based on the Spitbol packages, which include the most powerful pattern matching machinery.