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From: john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: help on Ada project
Date: 1999/12/02
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Peter Milliken <peter.milliken@australia.boeing.com> wrote:

>Nope, perhaps if you posted your code then we can help you by pointing
>out what is wrong. No freebies here, I'm sorry to say :-)

A hint - case selectors must be discrete types in Ada. Strings are not
discrete types.

>
>Peter
>
>phantom119@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>> I need some help on Ada, we are to create a
>> lexical analyzer and we are stuck on the fact that
>> it's giving us some problems on string comparison,
>> we are using a case statement to compare strings,
>> since just a few words the analyzer should
>> recognize for example "begin" and print out on the
>> screen TBegin, we are using a case statement but
>> for some reason I guess we are not using the right
>> syntax, any suggestions on how would you do that?
>>
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Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>