Re: Cannot use NULL as identifier?

["Petter Fryklund" <qsbpefr@esavionics.se>]

This is perhaps not the best and most efficient solution, but it works:

with Ada.Characters.Latin_1;
...
...
FilePath : constant string := "tesfile.xxx" & Ada.Characters.Latin_1.Nul;

McDoobie wrote in message ...
>I've written a small program that parses the contents of different
>directories and searches for duplicate files.
>
>I have an assignment that reads
>
>FilePath : constant string := "tesfile.xxx" & ASCII.NULL;
>
>Now, the GNAT compiler on Linux gives me the error
>"reserved word NULL cannot be used as identifier "
>
>Now, I'm using the text_io and gnat.os_lib libraries to compile this, so
>I'm assuming that os_lib makes an allowance for this. However, I could be
>mistaken. I ripped the above code fragement from a website, and the
>website (the Big Book of Linux Ada programming) doesnt appear to  indicate
>that theres a problem with this. (Of course I probably overlooked
>something.)
>
>I'm also searching through "Programming in Ada95"(Barnes) trying to find
>info on this error.
>
>Any tips or pointers would be helpful.
>
>Thanks.
>
>McDoobie
>Chris@dont.spam.me