RE: Escape Sequences in Strings

[Jean Cohen <jean.cohen@MailAndNews.com>]

>===== Original Message From Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> =====
>John English wrote:
>
>> Hey guys, I agree completely, but I wanted to give a *short* answer,
>> not a complete package hierarchy with all the trimmings... and I
>> said it wasn't the way to go anyway... Give us a break!
>
>Good point. Sometimes we tend to "over answer" a question, possibly leading
>a newbie to believe that Ada is just too complicated to do what they want.
>With the original question, I thought the best thing was to explain how to
>do what the questioner wanted to do - use escape codes in a string.
>Presumably, if he learns this much, Ada is now useful to him. As he moves
>along with learning the language, it will probably become clear that there
>are better ways of structuring code to manipulate the cursor. Possibly, he
>was already in the process of building such a package and just wanted to
>know how to implement the low-level features? (Even in C++, you'd isolate
>this kind of thing at a low level - or learn rather quickly that you
>*should* have! :-)
>
>Let's keep the life of a newbie comfortable and possibly just suggest that
>there *are* better ways and wait to see if they ask...

Yours and others replies were very helpful regarding my original question. 
John English answered my post just as I expected an answer to be like. The 
additional comments were nevertheless helpful as well (specifically the 
mention of the Latin1 character set and streams), since they illustrate a 
little of "The Ada Way" of doing things. So again - thank you all!

Kind regards,
Jean Cohen