Indeed Matthew, thye seem to be using Type casting....is ther such a thing
in Ada?  could you not typecase the resulting string into a character array?

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"Matthew Heaney" <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
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> > On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:31:52 GMT, Matthew Heaney
> > <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> > >The problem with Ada.Strings.Unbounded is that to do anything useful
> > >with it requires a conversion to type String, which is grossly
> > >inefficient, not to mention awkward.
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> > Yes, but the problem is deeper - unbounded string are not arrays.
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> That's true of the C++ std::string.  Yet that class manages to have a
> c_str() member function that does return an array.
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