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From: Chrono <pablittto@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: reference to a name variable
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:37:27 -0700 (PDT)
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On 28 jul, 15:25, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> On Jul 28, 3:51=A0pm, Chrono <pablit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 24 jul, 08:03, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
> > wrote:
>
> > > Pablo <pablit...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > > I have an integer variable which I'd like to set dinamically equal =
to
> > > > a value of a variable that I don't know at priori. Say as:
> > > > I want to set My_Integer =3D IntegerValue(MyString),
>
> > > My_Integer :=3D Integer'Value (MyString);
>
> > > --
> > > -- Stephe
>
> > Stephe, the idea is this really, instead of MyString is not a number
> > string, it's a string whose name is the name of a integer variable,
> > and it's the value of this variable what I want. This would work if I
> > had a string like "123", so Integer'Value("123") would give me 123.
> > When I try with a real naming string (instead of a number string),
> > program keeps waiting for an entry so it suspends itself...
>
> Like Dmitry said, a map (i.e. a container of name-value pairs, where
> names are Strings and values are integers) seems the best solution.
> See Ada.Containers.Hashed_Maps.
>
> However I'm curious to know why you need this? What is the higher-
> level problem you're trying to solve?
Basically I need test run time variables (thousands!) of a real-time
program machine..
>
> --
> Ludovic Brenta.