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From: Lars Noschinski <lars@usenet.noschinski.de>
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Subject: Re: Converting Char to Enum
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dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:
> Ouch! From heavy to heavier!
> An array is clearly the obvious efficient solution here.

You mean something like

  convert : constant array(characters) of symbols := ...

  sym : symbols;
  char : characters;

and an assignment like

"sym := convert(char)"?

In this case, how I catch invalid characters?


CU Lars Noschinski