Re: String

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Additional observation. The 'Length attribute only tells you about the 
allocated space - not any sort of logical end of the string. Trailing 
spaces, nulls, line terminators or any of the other mechanisms that 
might tell you where the string stops (but not where the storage stops) 
do NOT figure in to the value of the 'Length attribute.

This is often less than useful. I recommend that the reader look into 
Ada.Strings.Unbounded (or Ada.Strings.Fixed) for strings that have 
dynamic lengths.

MDC

Pascal Obry wrote:
> 
> 
> Just to point out that it is called an attribute in Ada.
> 
> Pascal.
> 

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