From: jerry@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk)
Subject: Re: ObjectAda: LPCSTR -> STRING ?
Date: 1998/01/11
Date: 1998-01-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <884553566.7snx@jvdsys.nextjk.stuyts.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 68tgdg$c7c$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU
In article <68tgdg$c7c$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> mcc@tyrolia.cs.princeton.edu writes:
>>I'm working with Aonix ObjectAda 7.1 and I need to figure
>>out a way to convert a LPCSTR to an Ada STRING. I'd appreciate
>>any help. Thanks.
>LPCSTR is equivalent to C's (const char *).
Why not simply use something like:
with System.C.Strings; use System.C.Strings;
Win_String : Win32.LPCSTR := -- get the string;
Ada_String : String := Value(chars_ptr(Win_String));
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1998-01-05 0:00 ObjectAda: LPCSTR -> STRING ? matthew_snyder
1998-01-06 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1998-01-11 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk [this message]
1998-01-12 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-01-06 0:00 ` Robin Stephe Nora
1998-01-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-01-07 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
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1998-01-20 0:00 matthew_snyder
1998-01-21 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
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