Re: STRING length

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

markww wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How does one use a variable length string in ada? I created a record
> like:
> 
>     type MY_RECORD is
>       record
>          m_strName     : STRING(1..5);
>          m_strPhone    : STRING(1..5);
>          m_strAddress  : STRING(1..5);
>       end record;
> 
> However when trying to assign the members of the record, at runtime I
> may get an exception if the assigned string is not exactly 5
> characters. Is there a different STRING type which doesn't care how
> long the assigned string is (as long as it's shorter than the max) or
> which just grows to meet the assigned string length?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Strings

Martin
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