From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,XPRIO
	autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,697fa9e83df511c1,start
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-22 08:10:06 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.mathworks.com!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail
From: "Matt Thomas" <matt_ontheroad@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Help setting up an array of records
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 15:09:44 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: BT Openworld
Message-ID: <acgcbn$sue$1@paris.btinternet.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: host213-122-142-79.in-addr.btopenworld.com
X-Trace: paris.btinternet.com 1022080184 29646 213.122.142.79 (22 May 2002
 15:09:44 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 15:09:44 +0000 (UTC)
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Priority: 3
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24526
Date: 2002-05-22T15:09:44+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

I know this might be a stupid question to most of you but i have just
started using Ada.

For my uni coursework i have to write a program to simulate a vending
machine.

I'm using an array of records to represent the items in the vending machine
but I dont know how to actually get the information into my array.  I need
to specify the name of the item, its cost and the quantity left.

Here is the record and array declaration, any help would be grateful.

MACHINE_SLOTS  :   constant := 6; --

type PRODUCT_TYPE is
   record
         NAME      :   STRING (1..12);
         LEN       :   POSITIVE;
         PRICE     :   INTEGER;
         QUANTITY  :   INTEGER;
   end record;

type PRODUCT_TYPE_ARR is array (1..MACHINE_SLOTS) of PRODUCT_TYPE;

PRODUCT   :   PRODUCT_TYPE_ARR;