Re: A quickie problem with an array and a right hand bracket

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <eV6V6.8331$6d5.1657665@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>, chris.danx
says...
>I'm trying to provide an array for quickie conversion between numbers and
>character equivalents like this
>
>    type array_16 is array (natural range 0..15) of character;
>
>    basic_16 : constant array_16 := ('0'..'9'|'a'..'f');

I don't think you can use the '|' character that way. I'm not sure what your
right hand side would even mean if it were valid.

Probably the easiest way to do this would be:

basic_16 : constant array_16 := "0123456789abcdef";

Of course it would be even easier to just use "String" (or a subtype thereof)
instead of making your own character array type. But you may have your reasons
for that.

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