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From: johnherro@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Q] Returning Strings From A Function
Date: 1997/04/07
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Mark & Zurima McKinney <mckmark@us.net> wrote:
> Target(Target'First .. Target'First + Source'Length -1);

jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) wrote:
> Target(Source'Range) := Source;

But Source'Range assumes that the index range of Source is appropriate to Target.  Target'First .. Target'First + Source'Length -1 assumes only that the Target string is long enough.

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