Re: getting words from file

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Sorry.. where can I find the Ada.Strings.Fixed.Find_Token procedure?

Cheers


"David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.21.1047098216.4331.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> Look at the procedure Ada.Strings.Fixed.Find_Token.
> 
> Tokens are groups of characters delimited by certain other characters.
> 
> For example if you specify whitespace characters (e.g., space, tab, etc.)
> plus punctuation marks as delimiters, then the found tokens will be words,
> if the file is ordinary text.
> 
> Find_Token will tell you the index of the first and last characters
> of the next token after some starting index.  Thus, after you find a token
> you start looking at the next character following the last character of the
> token just found, you'll find the next token, and so on.
> 
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> Sent: March 07, 2003 9:58 PM
> Subject: getting words from file
> 
> 
> > Does anyone know how I would store a word in a specific variable after
> > a space occurs inside a textfile? (say there was a line in the
> > textfile like this: one two three four five... I'd want it to get
> > these words and store it in an already defined var like varOne varTwo
> > and so on.
> > 
> > This is the idea I was playing with to get the actual word (scans
> > through the characters until it hits a space and tries to merge all of
> > those characters into a word): http://www.guff.org/ada.txt ..or am I
> > way off?
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