Re: Help setting up an array of records

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

That depends. Do you want to read the content from a file or just initialize
the array with some constant values?

The array you declared "PRODUCT" can have an initialization expression as
part of its declaration. The expression needs to evaluate to the type
PRODUCT_TYPE_ARR - so it could be a function. In general, the simplest thing
to do would be to use an aggregate. Look in the Ada Reference Manual in
section 4.3 for a description of aggregates for arrays and records. Also,
your textbook almost certainly has a description of it, so check the index
for "aggregate" there as well.

MDC
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"Matt Thomas" <matt_ontheroad@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:acgcbn$sue$1@paris.btinternet.com...
> 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;
>
>