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-Thread: 103376,db8ef2e54cb04ab9
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Unbounded String to string
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:18:01 -0700 (PDT)
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Message-ID: 
 <3de8e47e-302b-40a8-a296-c34b89ee2a7d@t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>
References: <004d7e0b-cf0a-4a71-ac7e-17b61818b910@5g2000yqz.googlegroups.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.172.199.214
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1277968681 22059 127.0.0.1 (1 Jul 2010 07:18:01
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 07:18:01 +0000 (UTC)
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: t10g2000yqg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.172.199.214;
	posting-account=x5rpZwoAAABMN2XPwcebPWPkebpwQNJG
User-Agent: G2/1.0
X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-US)
	AppleWebKit/531.21.8+(KHTML, like Gecko,
 Safari/528.16) OmniWeb/v622.11.0,gzip(gfe)
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:13045
Date: 2010-07-01T00:18:01-07:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On Jun 29, 7:28=A0am, tonyg <tonytheg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> =A0 =A0I have an unbounded string from a database I want to turn into a 1=
6
> character subtype of string
>
> i.e. unbounded_string to string(1..16)
>
> I've been trying to do this most of the afternoon but keep getting
> errors
>
> anyone know how ?
>
> Thanks

Check out Head, Tail, and possibly Trim.
Jerry