Re: character matching

["Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>]

First have a look at the standard library Ada.Characters.Handling
   You'll find goodies such as:

    function Is_Alphanumeric      (Item : in Character) return Boolean;

Then have alook at Ada.Strings.Maps.  There you'll find:

  function Is_In (Element : in Character;
                         Set     : in Character_Set)
  return Boolean;

I always recommend perusing the standard Ada library headers described in
Annex A of the Ada 95 reference manual.  You'll find lots of tools that do
the grunt work for you.

Steve
(The Duck)


"John J" <g_001@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the suggestions; however, I'm trying to learn a bit about the
> syntax and capabilities of ADA. Would someone be kind enough to give me
some
> examples of how I can use ADA to character match. ie, different ways I can
> use '*', '&' to successfully recognise words and sentences.
>
> Thanks
>
>