From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: *
X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID,
	MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,d93b7c6dd17cbc81
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: jrcarter001@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Strings and reading from a file
Date: 1999/05/13
Message-ID: <7hevh1$g08$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 477455500
References: <7han2q$jkp$1@news.iinet.net.au> <7hbnnl$rca$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
 <7hc358$ha5$1@news.iinet.net.au> <37399913.BD928DD1@pwfl.com>
X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x28.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 206.239.237.114
Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu May 13 16:44:18 1999 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.51 [en] (Win95; U)
Date: 1999-05-13T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

In article <37399913.BD928DD1@pwfl.com>,
  diespammer@pwfl.com wrote:

...

> function Next_Line return String is
>     Str  : String (1..256) ;
>     Len  : Natural ;
> begin
>     Get_Line (
>         Item  => Str,
>         Last  => Len) ;
>     return Str (1..Len) ;
> end Next_Line ;

...

Make the function recursive, and it can return a string of any length,
eliminating that nagging worry about strings that are longer than
whatever magic number you used in the function.


--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---