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From: johnherro@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Q] Returning Strings From A Function
Date: 1997/04/07
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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!

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