Re: Strings

[Jef Kelmo <jlk@vdu.org>]

Hello,

    What I want is to figure how to get something like the C++ strings class,
where I can have strings of various sizes, eventually building an array of
strings. But I'm having trouble with a simple string itself. In C++, you have
the string.length which goes to the null character, but from what I can
figure, there is not the same thing in Ada. Is this true?

    Anyway, what I would like, as I mentioned, is to be able to create an
array of strings that I can feed, after its creation, with data and be able to
spit it back out to the screen with some simple way for it to understand the
length of each string. I found the Get_Line(Input, String, Last) thing, but do
I really have to keep track of that length for hundreds of strings?

    Thanks.

Jef

"Beard, Frank" wrote:

> Jef,
>
> >    I just want a usable string. How would I change the above code to do
> > this? And could someone please point me to a site that gives actual,
> > concrete examples of simple string use?
>
> While Ada.Strings.Bounded has some useful features, it goes a little beyond
> "simple" strings.