Re: Variable length string

["DuckE" <nospam_steved94@home.com>]

If you're new to Ada, I suggest you browse through the facilities built into
the standard Ada libraries.

http://www.ada-auth.org/~acats/arm-html/RM-A.html

For the task at hand, I suggest you have a look at:
  Ada.Strings.Unbounded
 - or -
  Ada.Strings.Bounded


SteveD

"Shitij" <shitij.sah@sisl.co.in> wrote in message
news:9l82gv$j83$1@news.mch.sbs.de...
> Hi,
> Iam new to ADA.I just wanted to know how do you define a variable length
> string.I have declared a string array of length say a size of 20.But if I
> use get and pass this string as an arguement,then unless and until I fill
> this with exactly 20 characters my program is not working.How to overcome
> this?
> Iam using the below structure
>
> type list;
>  type pList is access list;
>  type list is
> record
>    data:integer;
>    str:string(1 .. 20);
>    next:pList:=NULL;
>   end record;
>
>