From: John English <je@bton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Problems with Last statment ....
Date: 2000/03/14
Date: 2000-03-14T17:25:14+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38CE76AE.B40FB874@bton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38ce6681.0@news.per.paradox.net.au
Defiant wrote:
> hi im writing a program for a uni assignment and it is complete and works
> yet i have set the string type to a min of 1 to a max of 20 characters for
> a name input...
>
> the problem i am having is i am using the Get_Line(Name, Last) statement to
> get the name they feed in and the Put(Name); procedure to output... the
> problem is ada compiler grabs whatever extra numerals hex and garbage that
> is left in RAM to fill the extra places between 1 and 20... that the name
> that was input doesnt fill ....
The reason for the Last parameter to Get_Line is it tells you
how many characters were actually read in. To print out just
the characters that you read in, try this:
Put( Name(1..Last) );
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2000-03-14 0:00 Problems with Last statment Defiant
2000-03-14 0:00 ` Frank J. Lhota
2000-03-14 0:00 ` John English [this message]
2000-03-14 0:00 ` John J Cupak Jr
2000-03-14 0:00 ` Defiant
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