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Subject: Re: Unconstrained String Handling.
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On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:25:03 -0800, mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
wrote:
..
> ip_text'Length yields the length of the actual argument; it's the same
> value as ip_text'last - ip_first + 1.
..

Unless the string has length zero, in which case Ip_Text'Last <
Ip_Text'First.

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