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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@nospam.baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: looping through variable length array
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"Stephen Frackelton" <stephen.frackelton@baesystems.com> wrote in message
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> i'm attempting to loop through a set of arrays, but theses arrays are of
> different lengths to cater for various message sizes.
> but i want to write the loop only once to cater for this.
> how is the best way to model this ?
>
> can i somehow use an unconstrained array ?
>
> if i have my data available in a fixed size array, how can i get this
> variable into a format i can loop through, regardless of the size of the
> array.

declare

   procedure Looping_Routine (Message : String) is
   begin
      for Index in Value'Range loop
         -- Do somthing with Message (Index)
      end loop;
   end Looping_Routine;

   Array1 : String (1 .. 10);
   Array2 : String (1 .. 100);

begin
   Looping_Routine (Message => Array1);
   Looping_Routine (Message => Array2);
end;