Re: Need help bad!!!!!

[amolthan@cdsnet.net (BlacKnight)]

In response to the help that I recieved here, thank you it is much 
appreciated for the diversment in ways to look at the problem I had. 
To these comments about helping students and reading the LRM and reference 
manual:
	Due to my teacher's lack of availability and the few people that I can 
find on campus that know ada, my resources here are not very exstenive. I use 
them when I can but they are rarely available. I did look through the LRM, the 
reference manual, the Rationale and numerous tutorials. I don't have the money 
to buy a manual on Ada. In the end the solution was simple, I should have seen 
it earlier. I did spend 8 - 9 hours working around the problem, the longer I 
worked on it, the farther away from the solution I got until I was utterly lost 
and frustrated. That is why I posted a request for help in this newsgroup. My 
apologies to those who found my request unfounded and irritable.
In article <54u8m2$ko1@news.cdsnet.net>, amolthan@cdsnet.net says...
>
>This is going to sound really stupid, and I'm extremely frustrated because I 
>know there has to be a simple answer to this:
>
>        I have a linked list lab I've been working on for college. I've gotten 
>the sort, etc working, except for 3 procedures that depend on this problem I'm 
>having. I need to have the user input a name (name : string(1..20);) to do one 
>of 3 options, add a record, display a records info, or delete the record. I've 
>been reading the input a character at a time and using an if condition to 
check 
>for Ascii.LF so the program can take whats entered and store it in name, and 
>then continue with the option selected. I can't get the program to accept any 
>type of carriage return, it always wants 20 characters no matter what. So the 
>user has to hit the space bar after entering the name until 20 cells in the 
>string are filled. I've tried unbounded_strings, ascii values, comparisons, 
>conditions, get_line(), get(), even dropped the code for get_line out of 
>gnat.io. None of this works. If anyone has some help, please post or email me 
>at : amolthan@cdsnet.net
>
>Thanks alot,
>Alex
>