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From: john@assen.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: [Q] Returning Strings From A Function
Date: 1997/04/06
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Date: 1997-04-06T00:00:00+00:00
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>John Herro said, talking of the question about dealing with a variable
>length string value returned
>
><<Does anyone have other solutions?
>>>
>
>Most certainly! The normal solutoin is just to declare a local variable
>and initialize it with the returned value:
>
>   x : string := f(x);
>
>That's straightforward. If you want to use pointers, then you can use
>
>   type x is access all string;
                     ^^^ In Ada83? I don't think so!

<..snip..>

Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>