excellent, I sincerely doubted it couldn't, I just never actually saw such
an example :-)

Thanks Preben :-)

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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> wrote in
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> On 2003-11-10, Stephane Richard <stephane.richard@verizon.net> wrote:
> > I'd like to make an constant array of a given record type and initialize
it
> > upon it's creation.
>
> [Delete unknown language (VHDL?)]
>
> Yes it can be done:
>
> ---8<-------8<------8<-------
>
> with Ada.Text_IO;  use Ada.Text_IO;
>
> procedure arrayinit
> is
>
>    type Test_Record is
>       record
>         Enabled : Boolean;
>         Name    : String(1 .. 5);
>         Value   : Integer;
>       end record;
>
>    type Test_Array is array (1 .. 5) of Test_Record;
>
>    My_Array : constant Test_Array :=
>       (1 => (True, "Test1", 1),
>        2 => (False, "Test2", 2),
>        3 => (False, "Test3", 4),
>        4 => (False, "Test4", 8),
>        5 => (True, "Test5", 16));
> begin
>
>    --  Printing the values to show that it is correct.
>
>    for i in My_Array'Range loop
>       Put_Line (Integer'Image (i) & " => " &
>                 Boolean'Image (My_Array (i).Enabled) & "," &
>                 My_Array (i).Name & "," &
>                 Integer'Image (My_Array (i).Value));
>    end loop;
>
> end arrayinit;
> ---8<-------8<------8<-------
>
>
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>  language."