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From: johnherro@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Q] Returning Strings From A Function
Date: 1997/04/07
Date: 1997-04-07T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19970407112901.HAA07881@ladder01.news.aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33474626.4BA3@us.net


I wrote:
>>    Target(1 .. Source'Length) := Source;

Mark & Zurima McKinney <mckmark@us.net> wrote:
> maybe Target(Target'First .. Target'First + Source'Length -1);

Absolutely!  I've often warned my students not to assume that the index of a string starts at 1, and even have that warning in my Ada Tutor program.  Then in my haste I made that error myself in the
above posting!

- John Herro
Software Innovations Technology
http://members.aol.com/AdaTutor
ftp://members.aol.com/AdaTutor





  reply	other threads:[~1997-04-07  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-04-04  0:00 [Q] Returning Strings From A Function John McCabe
1997-04-04  0:00 ` Joakim Olsson
1997-04-05  0:00 ` johnherro
1997-04-05  0:00   ` Mark & Zurima McKinney
1997-04-07  0:00     ` johnherro [this message]
1997-04-07  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07  0:00     ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-07  0:00       ` johnherro
1997-04-08  0:00     ` Jeff Carter
1997-04-09  0:00     ` Looking for an Ada SCIENTIFIC UNITS checking package Ron House
1997-04-05  0:00   ` [Q] Returning Strings From A Function Robert Dewar
1997-04-06  0:00     ` John McCabe
1997-04-06  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-05  0:00 ` John McCabe
1997-04-05  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-06  0:00     ` John McCabe
1997-04-06  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-06  0:00         ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-07  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-08  0:00             ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-07  0:00               ` Matthew Heaney
1997-04-06  0:00       ` Matthew Heaney
1997-04-05  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-06  0:00 ` John McCabe
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