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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Assembling Complex Strings Containing Carriage Returns Prior to
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:28:46 +0200
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mockturtle <framefritti@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 7:57:39 AM UTC+2, NiGHTS wrote:
>> I am converting some code from C to Ada which involves building a
>> complex string containing '\n' characters which would eventually be
>> displayed on the standard output console using the printf()
>> function.
[...]
>> EOL            : String := ASCII.CR'Img;
[...]
>     EOL : constant Character := ASCII.CR;

'\n' is not ASCII.CR, it is ASCII.LF, by the way.  And on some
nonstandard platforms, the C compiler translates '\n' into a sequence of
two characters, ASCII.CR & ASCII.LF.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.