Re: Simple library functions

[scallassig@mailexpire.com (Harald Korneliussen)]

Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> wrote in message news:<kdVWb.1821

> 
> There's no function for that in the standard library because it's part 
> of the language. Others have pointed out the 'Value attribute.

Oops, you're right of course. I found it right after I posted, in a
tutorial. I couln't find it in the RM however, but then again I looked
at strings and integers only, not attributes.
 
> I have no idea what String.split does in Java, but I suspect it's 
> similar to Ada.Strings.(Fixed | Bounded | Unbounded).Find_Token. If not, 
> you could look at www.adapower.com or www.adahome.com for Open_Token.

String.split works like this:

String s = "hi he ha ho"

String strings[] = s.split();

// strings[] is now {"hi", "he", "ha", "ho"}

In java it takes a regexp, with " \t\n" as default. My function takes
a set of characters (from Ada.Characters.Maps), with the set of
whitespace as default.

I'll be right back....