From: Andreas Winckler <andreas.winckler@frqnet.de>
Subject: Re: Beginner's questions
Date: 1999/05/03
Date: 1999-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <372D3B9A.5CBA1ABC@frqnet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 372da49c.12366381@news.rwth-aachen.de
Marco Schmidt wrote:
> 2) I want to use a fixed-size array of constant strings to store some
> names which do not all have the same length, but no name is longer
> than 20 characters. My approach looks like this:
>
> type t_my_array is array(0..17) of String;
>
> names : constant t_my_array := ("string 1", "string 2", ...,
> "string 18");
>
> The compiler doesn't like this (unconstrained element type). If I
> replace String with String(0..19), it is compiled, but a runtime error
> is raised. How should I do it?
For programmers used to Pascal the strings in Ada can be really
irritating, at least it was for me. I usually use unbounded strings
which are comparable to the strings in Pascal.
Greetings,
AW
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-02 0:00 Beginner's questions Marco Schmidt
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Marco Schmidt
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler [this message]
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-05-03 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-05-04 0:00 ` czgrr
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-07 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-08 0:00 ` ak
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