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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d3f28f2a74233d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-31 10:03:29 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Ted Dennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newbie Questions about Get, Get_Line Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:47:40 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <92nrfr$ehe$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <92l4s4$hjb$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <98pt4t477fqavihkgfbjioo7peo9vb7f20@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.48.27.130 X-Article-Creation-Date: Sun Dec 31 17:47:40 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001207 X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x55.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3496 Date: 2000-12-31T17:47:40+00:00 List-Id: In article <98pt4t477fqavihkgfbjioo7peo9vb7f20@4ax.com>, gressett@iglobal.net wrote: > It's a fixed-length String variable; I have to pad it with something, > and in this case, the fixed-length string is a good match to the > requirements of the problem being solved. Why? Do you have to print it out as a field in a table on the screen? Or are you just saying this because when you don't pad it and try to print out the whole string you get garbage? I'm sorry if you find the second option insulting, but you termed yourself a newbie, and lots of newbies have that misunderstanding. Of course, what they *should* be doing is printing out just the valid slice of the string, not the whole string... -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/