Re: Some problems with string type(Exact String?)

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

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<tmoran@acm.org> a �crit dans le message news: whxT6.68591$%i7.51923767@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com...
> >not greater than the bounds of the array.  My first hunch on the way to
> >work with this strictness(or so it seems) would be keep count of the
> >number of elements (characters of a string, numbers, whatever) going into
> >the array, and then pad the rest of the array with with NULLs or something
>   In Barnes, look at the chapter "Predefined Library", section "Characters
> and strings" and you'll see Ada.Strings.Bounded (and Ada.Strings.Unbounded).
> Bounded strings essentially keep a "current length", along with the fixed
> length array.  There's no need then to pad with nulls or anything else.
>
Alternatively, you can use the Variable_String package that is available on Adalog's components page:
http://www.adalog.fr/compo2.htm

Note that this package is pure, which (unlike the other packages) makes it usable for distributed applications.
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