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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:19:20 +0800
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Bj�rn Persson wrote:
> Cecilia Chew wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> I am doing a program that will count the input characters from user. 
>> There is a problem that I can't solve.
>> Problem is : since I'm going to count the characters. So, I can't ask 
>> user how many characters they want to input. Compilation error come 
>> and mention that the string need to be constrainted.
>> How am I going to constraint the string type since I don't know how 
>> many characters user going to input.
> 
> 
> If you do want to store the characters, and not just count them, then 
> you obviously need a data type that can handle a variable number of 
> characters. The first place to look for a suitable data type is Ada's 
> standard library.
> 

Since user will enter more than one characters, is that any problem if i 
placed the   type string is array (positive range <>) of character;  to 
handle a variable number of characters?
As input is declared as type string, isn't the characters will be stored 
as the   Get (input(i)); being executed??

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Cecilia Chew
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