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From: Mark A Biggar <mark.a.biggar@lmco.com>
Subject: Re: How to initiate part of a string?
Date: 1998/08/25
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Hans Marqvardsen wrote:

> I have a package GLOBALS,
> containing global types and variables,
> (but no procedures or functions).
> 
>         package Globals is --among other things
>                 Txt: string (1..100);
>         end Globals;
> 
> Is there a clean way to specify an initial value for a slice of Txt ?


If you realy intend that the rest of the string be undefined, then you can
always do it in a package body like so:

package body Globals is
begin
	Txt(1..6) := "abcdef";
end Globals;

You will also need to add a pragma Elabotate_Body; to the package
spec to keep the compiler happy (Ada 95).

--

Mark Biggar
mark.a.biggar@lmco.com