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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: conversion
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:04:15 +0000 (UTC)
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Bill Findlay <yaldnifw@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
:> "Andrew" <andrew@carroll-tech.net> writes:
: 
: function f (n : positive) return String is
:    s : String(1..n) := (others => ' ');
: begin
:    if n > 1 then return s & f(n-1); end if;
:    return s;
: end f;
: 
: This returns a blank string of length n(n+1)/2.

You can combine this with Get_Line and then Find_Token.


Georg