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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: String filtering
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:12:32 +0100
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Martin Dowie wrote:
> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> [snip]
>>>        New_Str := To_Unbounded_String("");
>>
>> No need for that, it is initially an empty string.
>
> Nope - it's an uninitialized string. But I agree that it you've
> already determined the size then there is no need for this as each
> character in New_Str will be certain to be filled.

Actually, the OP has it right, because it's uninitialised it is filled with
rubbish and of the size requested and the OP is going to /append/ items to
it, so it needs to be empty before the loop starts.

Cheers

-- Martin