Re: How to delete charcters in a string?

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

It seems like if all that is wanted is to get rid of some character
contained in the string without actually decreasing the size of the string
(just back padding with spaces or nulls or whatever...) then the best thing
to do is use the package Ada.Strings.Fixed. From my quick review of it you
have:

Move
Replace_Slice
Overwrite
Delete

All of which could be used to remove a particular character. Does that
address the original concern or was there a requirement to remove the array
position as well? (No need to build the proverbial "Brick Outhouse" if this
addresses the needs of an Ada newbie, eh? :-)

MDC
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"Dale Stanbrough" <dstanbro@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:dstanbro-836472.18481830012002@mec2.bigpond.net.au...
> tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>
>
> Yes you can do that, but then you are -not- deleting characters
> from a string, you are deleting characters from a variable
> length string abstraction which is contained in two variables
> (Old_String, Last). This is essentially what Ada.Strings.Bounded
> does of course.
>