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On Jun 10, 8:49=A0am, Shark8 <onewingedsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, June 9, 2012 4:25:05 AM UTC-5, Nomen Nescio wrote:
>
> > Ada is (by design) a safe language. =A0But the side effect is that
> > strings are arrays of characters and the developer is forced to be
> > mindful of boundaries.. bogged down with detail.
>
> And yet, if we were not mindful of [array] bounds, we would be screaming =
at all the times using strings caused a buffer-overflow.
>
> There are ways to "work around" the problem, like the reading long/variab=
le-length strings piece-at-a-time and constructing the result inside a func=
tion. (Using recursion:http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=3DClass&Cl=
assID=3DBasics&CID=3D202)
>
> That said, there are languages that are made for text processing, SNOBOL =
[IIRC] is one such language. (Also, I think there's an Ada port of the SPIT=
BOL macros as part of the GNAT-specific packages.) Ironically, most of them=
 aren't used in the mainstream of software development which tends to fall =
back on C's string manipulation [style of] functions or Regex (which is hor=
rible if you look at Regex from a maintenance perspective.).

How handle the strings without regex?