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From: Graeme Wallace <Dizzy@interact.net.au>
Subject: newbie problem
Date: 1998/12/05
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If I want to get user input for my program in the form of a  string of
undefined length, how do I do so ?  If I set the string length to, say:

help_me_please : String(1..20);

I seem to be stuck with a string exactly that size.  What is the
variable assignment which allows the actual length of the user input to
determine the length of the string which the io system
(ada.text_io.)gets ?

G Wallace

Thankyou.
:-)