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From: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." <rleif@rleif.com>
Subject: RE: FIXED vs BOUNDED strings in Ada 95
Date: 2000/01/19
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From: Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
To: MaryAnn Atkinson et al.

Fixed strings contain a constant number of characters; the length of the
string. Bounded strings contain a maximum number of characters. The actual
number of characters is also available as a function. Thus a
Line_Bounded_String could contain from 0 to 80 characters. Bounded strings
are a very efficient and useful construct.

-----Original Message-----
From: MaryAnn Atkinson [mailto:maryann_30@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:20 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: FIXED vs BOUNDED strings in Ada 95


Could someone please provide a paragraph or two
explaining the difference between
fixed and bounded strings?

... so far it seems like Ada's use of
strings(all of them), is quite awkward.

Oracle's PL/SQl which is structured after Ada,
provided a much easier and way more functional way.

MAA
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