From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e61c8636ef35379d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-12 05:20:16 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!falcon.america.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.cwix.com!EU.net!npeer.kpnqwest.net!nreader2.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A5F0407.AA6D7526@cfmu.eurocontrol.be> From: Andrew Hately Reply-To: andrew.hately@eurocontrol.be Organization: Eurocontrol X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Escape Sequences in Strings References: <3A17B0E2@MailAndNews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: ecw.eurocontrol.be!unknown@193.58.31.14 X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:18:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.221.170.178 X-Complaints-To: abuse@Belgium.EU.net X-Trace: nreader2.kpnqwest.net 979305482 193.221.170.178 (Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:18:02 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:18:02 MET Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3948 Date: 2001-01-12T13:18:02+00:00 List-Id: Jean Cohen wrote: > > I'm quite new to Ada and consider a transition from C++ Welcome. Its very hard to go back. > As you all certainly know it is quite easy and > straightforward in C++ to set cursor positions, > the format (tabulators, newlines etc.) of a string etc. by using escape > sequences. IMHO Ada is easier and more straight forward. See section A.10 of the Ada Reference manual. "Text Input-Output" especially A.10.5 "Operations on Columns, Lines and Pages" Andrew Hately shameless plug: http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2001.html