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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ae9506fd4dcf7090 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-10 08:30:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.news2me.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Justin Birtwell" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Concatenation and Characters X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: <12hp9.796$_u6.380@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:30:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.202.46.147 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1034263805 151.202.46.147 (Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:30:05 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:30:05 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29669 Date: 2002-10-10T15:30:05+00:00 List-Id: This is what I don't understand! How can you declare a string variable when you don't know before hand what the string is going to be? Do you overload the String like String(1..80) and hope for the best? This seems like overkill. I know this must really be boner of a newbie question, but I'm baffled. I look forward to you your response, Justin