From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8f802583e5c84fa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:02:03 -0500 From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: String filtering References: <433bf44d$0$26212$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:02:03 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.102.223 X-Trace: sv3-vFdvGuqFla4LvzMF08oivKvFUgUjriHt/VHt1o9e6VotIJmCBUz+QgNPjnksvN+PDi7Lezf8lk8iFim!rSA/XyxEZddp51YVNtncufC/XCb8nJDWjjkNCiFvoanRdW25kxeO/5OBJ38bA3AcS9J2MUPXJrZD X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5327 Date: 2005-10-01T14:02:03-05:00 List-Id: I've missed part of this thread. Was "Fixed" something like: function Strip_Non_Alphanumeric (Str: in String) return String is Result : String(Str'range); Last : Natural := Result'first-1; begin for i in Str'range loop if not Is_In(Str(i), Alphanumeric_Set) then Last := Last+1; Result(Last) := Str(i); end if; end loop; return Result(Result'first .. Last); end Strip_Non_Alphanumeric;