Re: Problems with Last statment ....

["Defiant" <ithinkiforgot@.bad.memory.com>]

THANKS HEAPS !! works like a charm... ill have to remeber this think ill be
using the last statement a bit, thanks!


"John J Cupak Jr" <John_J_Cupak@res.raytheon.com> wrote in message
news:38CE7AD7.7A111DC0@res.raytheon.com...
> 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
>