From: "Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Strings Libraries for the clueless.
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 00:41:09 GMT
Date: 2002-11-06T00:41:09+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FyZx9.47867$bG.40908@rwcrnsc53> (raw)
In-Reply-To: eVWx9.26421$Lu1.39570@sccrnsc01
"Caffeine Junky" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eVWx9.26421$Lu1.39570@sccrnsc01...
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> Ada.Strings.Fixed
>
> function Index (Source : in String; Pattern : in String;
> Going : in Direction := Forward;
> Mapping : in Maps.Character_Mapping := Maps.Identity)
> return Natural;
>
>
> Now, the gist of this function is pretty clear. It looks at a String and
> returns the number of how many Characters are in the string(I'm
> assuming.) But what's this "Pattern" string I'm supposed to pass to it?
Number of characters in the string is just the 'length of the string.
(Others have explained what this function actually does so I won't repeat
it)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-05 21:40 Ada Strings Libraries for the clueless Caffeine Junky
2002-11-05 22:07 ` Mark Biggar
2002-11-05 22:17 ` Simon Wright
2002-11-06 0:41 ` Jeffrey Creem [this message]
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