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From: "Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Strings Libraries for the clueless.
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"Caffeine Junky" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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stuff deleted

> 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)