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From: brett <user@compgroups.net/>
Subject: confusion with string initialization 
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Date: 2010-04-17T08:21:34-05:00
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I'm trying to learn Ada 2005 with GNAT ( Linux) and are having problems with string initialization using the 

bs := 20 * " ";  

construct, which always gives an error 

"universal integer expected"

As my syntax is similar to that in Ada 2005 book by Barnes
(page 594 & 596) I'm a bit confused :-)
Searching the ARM was of no value either !

Thanks for any input

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