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From: "Luke Guest" <lguest@bubball.com>
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This looks like coursework to me. You should really look a bit harder.

Luke.

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> Question:
> 1.  As the procedure ascending compiles as a independent unit with the
>      other file name, it could sort the two characters correctly.
>      However, as I put it together with sort.adb program. Specification
>      part that declared the procedure ascending conflict with the
>      variable left and right. Where is the mistake?

I'll give you a hint, parameter and local variable names.

> 2.  Before plug in the procedure ascending, the program successfully
>      being compiled. But the program can't allocate the specified space
>      as x characters in outputting the result. For an example, user
>      specified 2 characters, but the program still allow user to input
>      less than or excess 2 characters..Where is the mistakes?

Check your for loop when inputting the characters.