Re: how to read a file into a array???

[Mark Biggar <mark.a.biggar@attbi.com>]

Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> 
> devine wrote:
> >
> > I'm having some problems reading a file into a array.  Say the file
> > has the line
> > This is a test, how can i read each word of the file into a array? an
> > example would be helpful.
> > thanks.
> 
> An array object in Ada is always a fixed size, so you have to have some
> means of deciding how big to make your array. Since words in a text file
> are different sizes, you're going to have to have array components that
> can handle different size components.

Don't bother.  Slurp the whole file into one big string and then 
parse and create an array of records containing indices to the 
first and last character of each word.  Write an access function 
that takes an index and returns the corresponding slice.

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Mark Biggar
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