Re: string comparison?

[steved@pacifier.com (Steve Doiel)]

In article <EI5vIH.Et7@seas.ucla.edu>, tram@mulholland.seas.ucla.edu says...
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>        I am new to the ada programming language and I would appreciate it
>if somebody could help me out with a couple of things.
>1.  Is there anyway to do a string comparison in ada?
>    So far, I have done it character by character but I am wondering if there
>    is a better way to do it? 

Sure, how about:

DECLARE
  ucToken : String := "CONST";
BEGIN
  IF ucToken = "CONST" THEN
    DoSomething;
  END IF;
END;

>2.  Is there anyway to exit out of a program inside an if-then-else 
statement?
>    I have a program that waits for a command, and depending on that command,
>    it would do something.  So I thought that the quit command would be 
>    simplest.  But I can't even exit out of the if-then-else block.

IF Ada.Characters.Handling.To_Upper( response ) = "QUIT" THEN
  RETURN;
END IF;

-- Since the main program in Ada is a procedure, you can RETURN to leave
-- the main procedure.

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>TIA.
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