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From: David Botton <David@Botton.com>
Subject: Re: Strings and reading from a file
Date: 1999/05/11
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Take a look at the package Ada.Strings.Unbounded in the RM A.4.5

David Botton


Cameron Hodge wrote:
> 
> Hey guys and girls
> 
> I know this is pretty simple but I have to read some strings in from a file.
> I have declared the type to be
> 
> Firstname : String of length 1..20
> 
> I can read the string in fine, no probs there, but if the string is under
> the 20 characters I get rubbish in the remaining string positions. Now I got
> around this by assigning firstname := " <20 spaces>" however when I now
> display this string to the screen, it displayes the full 20 characters. How
> to do I remove the training Space's ????
> 
> Now I know I get the length of the string when I read it in and can declare
> the varialle there and then, but I am reading in many strings all of
> different lengths into an array.
> 
> hmm I hope everyone can understand this.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> vampyre@ozemail.com.au