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From: tmoran@bix.com
Subject: Re: Searching for an object
Date: 2000/08/21
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>        if in_field = "field1" and for_this_string = "foo"
>        then
>           result = "found";
>        if in_field = "field2" and for_this_string = "foo"
>        then
>           result = "found";
>
>I'm looking for a short notation like
>"record.$fieldname". I hope I can make you understand. :-)
  I'm confused.  The example pseudo-code indicates there are
two fields, "in_field" and "for_this_string", while
record.$fieldname suggests, to me, that you want multiple
different field names in your record.
  If you don't like the successive "if"s, how about
   if for_this_string = "foo"
   and then ada.strings.fixed.index("field1 field2", in_field) /= 0 then
     result := "found";
(assuming, of course, that all strings are the indicated length).
  If I understand correctly what you mean by record.$fieldname, why
not just have the record contain an array of the fields?