From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: reading a text file into a string
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 22:38:37 GMT
Date: 2004-07-17T22:38:37+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <Vq2dnbvOBO2w1mTd4p2dnA@comcast.com>
Robert I. Eachus wrote:
> I meant to say "the Buffer contains a constant LENGTH String..." In Ada
> 83 you had to declare the String a constant for this idiom to work, but
> that wasn't what I was trying to say. The magic is that each time
> through the loop the buffer is exactly the right size to hold the line.
> If you need to be able to change the length of the buffer though, you
> have to use Unbounded_String.
In Ada 83, I often did something like
Buffer_C : constant String := Some_Function;
Buffer : String (1 .. Buffer_C'Length) := Buffer_C;
so I could modify Buffer, and hoped that the compiler would be smart
enough to only keep one copy of the string.
--
Jeff Carter
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Monty Python's Flying Circus
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2004-07-15 17:27 reading a text file into a string zork
2004-07-15 17:49 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-07-15 19:57 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-15 17:59 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-07-15 19:18 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-15 19:18 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-15 20:02 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-16 1:23 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-07-16 2:20 ` Steve
2004-07-16 2:26 ` Steve
2004-07-16 16:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-07-16 17:45 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-16 21:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-17 2:27 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-17 11:31 ` Mats Weber
2004-07-17 15:52 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-17 22:38 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2004-07-18 13:44 ` zork
2004-07-19 8:07 ` Dale Stanbrough
2004-07-19 8:58 ` Martin Dowie
2004-07-21 0:17 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-21 21:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-22 22:34 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-23 0:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-23 21:56 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-24 0:34 ` tmoran
2004-07-24 1:16 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-24 1:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-24 15:14 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-26 23:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-27 12:08 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-27 23:24 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-29 0:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-29 0:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-29 7:25 ` Martin Dowie
2004-07-29 20:08 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-30 0:14 ` tmoran
2004-07-24 2:56 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-19 11:51 ` Ada2005 (was " Peter Hermann
2004-07-19 12:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-07-19 13:01 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-19 13:35 ` Martin Dowie
2004-07-19 17:22 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-19 23:50 ` Randy Brukardt
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