Re: Ada Query...

["Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>]

Hint: Notice the difference in these two sentences in your original post:

"can you write a function that returns no result"

"What i want is to simply call a function/ procedure to do this"

Check the Ada Language Reference Manual for details...

"Matt" <matt.brewster@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:8bkv48$dcm$1@uranium.btinternet.com...
> Yo.
> Having a bit of trouble with Ada95 at the moment.
> What i want to know is- , or
> is there another way to do it?
> The program is basically a huge database, and the data is entered into an
> array of records. The program loads a text file into the array, and then
> presents a list of options (menu). One of the options is a to 'search'
the
> database and display a screen of required information. What i want is to
> simply call a function/ procedure to do this - but I don't want any result
> returned. I don't want the search option to be included into the main
> program, as it is huge. It works as a program in itself, but i want to
call
> it from other programs as either a function-like operation or by directly
> calling the compiled/built ada .exe.
> I am using GNAT ada95 on a windows98 machine.
> Any suggestions?
> Regards,
> Matt.
>
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