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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Strings
Date: 2000/05/27
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Karlene <kejohnso@student.ecu.edu.au> wrote in message
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> How can you validate a string (eg a name of a person) to check that it
only
> contains characters, not integers?  I have tried exceptions in my program,
> but it dosent seem to cover it.
>
Look at the character classification functions in the package
Ada.Characters.Handling.