Re: trimming strings

[Adam Beneschan <adambeneschan@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, August 2, 2014 8:27:42 AM UTC-7, G. B. wrote:
> >> subtype string255fixedtype is string (1.255);
> >> inbuf : string255fixedtype;

> >> BEGIN
> >>   inbuf := Get_Line;
> >>   inbuf := trim(inbuf,both);  
> >> --    this does not work, error is both is not visible

> > Please post a complete example, there is many errors above, far to many
> > to even pass the compilation.
> 
> 
> one of these being likely that an array of 255 characters
> is to receive a string object that may not have that many
> due to trimming.

That's definitely an error (and assigning a string with a known length to Get_Line won't work either).  But those won't cause errors at compile time.  They will result in exceptions at run time.

                                 -- Adam