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: 103376,966831d952eefbb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Random Input-Size and recognizing ENTER-press References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:52:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.186.48.135 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1103471534 63.186.48.135 (Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:52:14 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 07:52:14 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7074 Date: 2004-12-19T15:52:14+00:00 List-Id: xadian wrote: > > Here's my problem: > I need to to Get() a random number of characters (typed by the user) in > an array. > I could loop with a Get() statement and exit when all the inputs are in > the array, but for that I'd need to know the number of inputs before. Is > there a way to do that without knowing the input number?! An array of characters is a string. In Ada, you can use the predefined type String. Input of an arbitrary length String is easily done with a function such as PragmARC.Get_Line. You can obtain the PragmAda Reusable Components at http://home.earthlink.net/~jrcarter010/pragmarc.htm -- Jeff Carter "C++: The power, elegance and simplicity of a hand grenade." Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen 90