Re: newbie problem

[Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>]

Graeme Wallace wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

Download GNAT and look at the package GNAT.IO_Aux. It contains two
Get_Line functions that should solve your problem:

help_me_please : constant String(1..20) := GNAT.IO_Aux.Get_Line;