I hear about this problem quite a bit from my Ada students.

Reading/Writing fixed-length strings:

Get_Line(Name, Last); -- Reads 0..Last number of characters into Name string
Put         (Name(1..Last)); -- Put ONLY characters just read to output!

Hope this helps!

Yours in Ada,
John

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 ....
>
> any suggestions ...
>
> Thanks