Re: Beginer problem: variable array size

[Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net>]

Munch wrote:

> 
> The one thing i haven't looked into is to see if there is a string
> tokenizer (is that what its called/) built in.  basically read the
> numbers in and appened them to the end of an unbound string ( i know i
> saw that somewhere).  Then parse it looking for spaces and converting
> the characters to their int form making the array then and copying
> them over.  Again seems like I'm going From new york to new jersey but
> i've got a lay over in los angeles....*sigh*
> 


Yes, Ada does have a built in tokenizer. It can be found in the package
Ada.Strings.Fixed. For what you want, simply read your values into an
unbounded string, convert that string to a fixed length string, then
traverse that string using the indexing and tokenizing subprograms.

Jim Rogers