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"Maciej Sobczak" <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:5886ab95-8744-4b72-b911-e4cb8889c7e7@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> Consider this:
>
>   type Name is new String (1 .. 10);
>
>   N : Name;
>
>   Some_String : String := "abc";
>
> How can I assign Some_String to the beginning slice (ie. to the first
> three characters) of N?
> Everything that I can think of (short of copying characters
> individually) hits the type compatibility problem.

If you can change the definition of Name to:

  subtype Name is String( 1 .. 10 );

Then of course you can use:

  N( 1 .. 3 ) := Some_String( 1 .. 3 );

But that doesn't sound like what you're looking for.

Regards,
  Steve

>
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>
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