Re: newbie problem

["David Botton" <dbotton@hotmail.com>]

Take a look at the following URL:

http://www.cs.uofs.edu/~beidler/Ada/cgi/cgitoc-U.html#Ustrings

This is a package called UStrings that lets you use unbounded strings (what
you are looking for) in a very natural way like:

help_me_please : Unbounded_String;

Ustring.Get_Line(help_me_please);

The srouce code for the package is part of the cgi package at:

http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/ada/swcomps/cgi/cgi.html

David Botton

The Ada Source Code Treasury
http://www.botton.com/ada

From: Graeme Wallace <Dizzy@interact.net.au>

>If I want to get user input for my program in the form of a  string of
>undefined length, how do I do so ?  If I set the string length to, say:
>
>help_me_please : String(1..20);
>
>I seem to be stuck with a string exactly that size.  What is the
>variable assignment which allows the actual length of the user input to
>determine the length of the string which the io system
>(ada.text_io.)gets ?
>
>G Wallace
>
>Thankyou.
>:-)
>