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From: johnherro@aol.com (John Herro)
Subject: Re: Why won't this work
Date: 1998/02/03
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SiliconJesus <softichj@cs.montana.edu> writes:
>--I want this to kill if the user enters 4 oh's- ...
>WHILE Ide /= "OOOO" LOOP ...
>      Ada.Text_IO.PUT(Item =>"Please enter the Article Id");           >     
>      Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line(Item =>Ide, Last =>how_long); 

You're comparing "OOOO" with the whole string Ide instead of just the portion
of the string that the user typed.  Change the WHILE to

WHILE Ide(1 .. how_long) /= "OOOO" LOOP

and make sure how_long is initialized before the first pass through the loop
(perhaps by setting it to 0 in its declaration).
- John Herro
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