Re: [Q] Returning Strings From A Function

[jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)]

In article <19970407112901.HAA07881@ladder01.news.aol.com> johnherro@aol.com writes:

> I wrote:
> >>    Target(1 .. Source'Length) := Source;
> 
> Mark & Zurima McKinney <mckmark@us.net> wrote:
> > maybe Target(Target'First .. Target'First + Source'Length -1);
> 
> Absolutely!  I've often warned my students not to assume that the
> index of a string starts at 1, and even have that warning in my Ada
> Tutor program.  Then in my haste I made that error myself in the
> above posting!

IMO, the simplest way of getting at the (Target'First .. Target'First
+ Source'Length -1 business is to write:

    Target(Source'Range) := Source;

Of course this may not be what you are after since the slice
represented here may not be the one you really want...

/Jon

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