Re: Escape Sequences in Strings

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>]

Jean Cohen wrote:

> (by the way, I like the concept of streams in C++.)
>

Ada has streams and stream I/O as well. It works pretty well and I think if
you get familiar enough with Ada to understand "The Ada Way" of doing it,
you'll find it to be a handy feature.

>
> My question is then - How is it possible to use escape sequences (or
> something
> functionally equivalent) in Ada 95?

Escape sequences are just a series of characters in Ada, pretty much as they
are in C/C++. You can include non-printable characters into a string by using
the constants defined in the package Ada.Characters.Latin_1. See Appendix
A.3.3 of the ARM for the full list.

However, you might find it easier to shop around for an existing package to do
all your cursor moving for you. Start cruising around http://www.Adapower.com/
for reusable components and links to other Ada sites. I'm sure someone here
will point you at more than one package to do this job for you.

MDC

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