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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Unbounded String to string
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On Jun 29, 7:28=A0am, tonyg <tonytheg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> =A0 =A0I have an unbounded string from a database I want to turn into a 1=
6
> character subtype of string
>
> i.e. unbounded_string to string(1..16)
>
> I've been trying to do this most of the afternoon but keep getting
> errors
>
> anyone know how ?

Declare a subtype to give string(1..16) a name; then call To_String
(in Ada.Strings.Unbounded) and convert the function result to your
subtype.  E.g.:

   subtype String_Length_16 is string(1..16);
   V : String_Length_16;

   V :=3D String_Length_16 (Ada.Strings.Unbounded.To_String (U));

                        -- Adam