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On Sunday, December 6, 2020 at 5:07:24 AM UTC-6, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> On 12/6/20 9:39 AM, John Perry wrote: 
> >...the only way I could find to count the number of elements in a Character_Set was by converting it to a Character_Sequence. Is there another way?
> Probably one of the set pkgs in Ada.Containers or 
> PragmARC.Data_Structures.Sets.Discrete might be a better choice than Character_Set 

Thanks, Ada.Containers.Hashed_Sets works fine. I look forward to initialization of containers in the next edition of gnat.

john perry