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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,ef01efac83f51e2e
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-18 09:51:42 PST
From: "Stephen Frackelton" <stephen.frackelton@baesystems.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
References: <3c96047c$1@pull.gecm.com> <3C960A83.C2A1E9E1@otelco.net>
Subject: Re: looping through variable length array
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:47:38 -0000
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600
NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.31.31.128
Message-ID: <3c962806$1@pull.gecm.com>
X-Trace: 18 Mar 2002 17:46:46 GMT, 172.31.31.128
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!62.24.128.9.MISMATCH!news-1.opaltelecom.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!newreader.ukcore.bt.net!pull.gecm.com!172.31.31.128
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21416
Date: 2002-03-18T17:47:38+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

i would be using 'range anyway
the problem is the array size is variable, i have many declared arrays of
various sizes and wish to write one looping process to cater for all,
obviously i cannot loop through the array name as this only caters for that
instance of the array
thanks
Stephen

"Larry Hazel" <lhhazel@otelco.net> wrote in message
news:3C960A83.C2A1E9E1@otelco.net...
> Stephen Frackelton wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> Knowing the number of items in the array, just loop from
>   array_name'first .. array_name'first + number_items - 1
> and you may know that array_name'first is 1, so you can loop from 1 ..
> number_items.
>
> I'm a bit confused by "loop through a set of arrays".
>
> Larry