how to reverse output of a line using ada

how to reverse output of a line using ada

[Florian Paulus]

Hi everybody!

I got the following task:

my program shall read a line and display it reversed.

e.g. "World" should become "dlroW"

is there any way to do this in Ada? i couldn't find any hint throughout the
net. just something like in reverse but i don't know how to use this.

thank you in advance

Florian Paulus

Re: how to reverse output of a line using ada

[mjsilva]

In article <8ve870$4fkkm$1@ID-62217.news.dfncis.de>,
  "Florian Paulus" <mailme@ascat.de> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I got the following task:
>
> my program shall read a line and display it reversed.
>
> e.g. "World" should become "dlroW"
>
> is there any way to do this in Ada?

Certainly -- this is possible in any general-purpose language.

> i couldn't find any hint throughout the
> net. just something like in reverse but i don't know how to use this.

Think of the individual characters in the line as e.g. poker chips,
lined up in order.  How would you hand these poker chips to somebody,
one at a time in reverse order?  Once you can describe that process in
detail you can write the code.

BTW, if you don't know what poker chips are there in .de, just think of
individual squares of paper with single characters written on them...

Mike


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Re: how to reverse output of a line using ada

[Ted Dennison]

In article <8ve870$4fkkm$1@ID-62217.news.dfncis.de>,
  "Florian Paulus" <mailme@ascat.de> wrote:

> I got the following task:
(task = homework?)

> my program shall read a line and display it reversed.
>
> e.g. "World" should become "dlroW"
>
> is there any way to do this in Ada? i couldn't find any hint

With older versions of the GreenHills Compiler, you could do this by
writing it to a stream. :-)

(That's now fixed, I understand).

--
T.E.D.

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Re: how to reverse output of a line using ada

[Adrian Knoth]

Florian Paulus <mailme@ascat.de> wrote:

> Hi everybody!

Hi!

> my program shall read a line and display it reversed.

I'd do it this way:

with ustrings; use ustrings;
with ada.strings.unbounded; use ada.strings.unbounded;
with ada.text_IO; use ada.text_IO;

procedure bla is

        procedure output(what : in String) is
        begin
                for I in reverse what'range loop
                        Put(what(I));
                end loop;
        end output;

  buffer : ustring;

begin
        Get_Line(buffer);
        output(To_String(buffer));
end bla;


Please discuss.


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Re: how to reverse output of a line using ada

[Paul Cass]

There must be lots of ways to do this including reading into an array and
outputting in reverse.  However I suspect your tutor/lecturer wants you to
play with the "pred" and "succ" attributes.  You need to read about object
attributes, study the text_io package and simple array management.

Go try some algorithms - programming is meant to fun!

Cheers
Paul

"Florian Paulus" <mailme@ascat.de> wrote in message
news:8ve870$4fkkm$1@ID-62217.news.dfncis.de...
> Hi everybody!
>
> I got the following task:
>
> my program shall read a line and display it reversed.
>
> e.g. "World" should become "dlroW"
>
> is there any way to do this in Ada? i couldn't find any hint throughout
the
> net. just something like in reverse but i don't know how to use this.
>
> thank you in advance
>
> Florian Paulus
>
>
>