From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2ed1f845799e1cd8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John English Subject: Re: Problems with Last statment .... Date: 2000/03/14 Message-ID: <38CE76AE.B40FB874@bton.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 597425933 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38ce6681.0@news.per.paradox.net.au> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 953054714 19932 193.62.183.204 (14 Mar 2000 17:25:14 GMT) Organization: University of Brighton Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Mar 2000 17:25:14 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-03-14T17:25:14+00:00 List-Id: 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) ); ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------