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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with Ada.Text_IO and strings.
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:06:16 -0400
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"Bleakcabal" <bleakcabal@gdnmail.net> wrote in message
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> Hi, im new to Ada and I am writing my first program trying to "get"
> Ada.
>
> My small program ask for input from the user. I read it using :
>
> Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line (MyType.Name, NameLength);
>
> This data is then stored inside an array of a type I have declared :
>
> type MyType is record
> name : string(1..20);
> adress : string(1..40);
> telephone : natural;
> end record;

> Later in the program I output this information using :
> Ada.Text_IO.Put (MyType.name);

Try

Ada.Text_IO.Put(MyType.name(1..Namelength));  -- to print only the part of
the string that was used.

> My problem is this : when I output the name, part of the string is
> filled with "garbage" characters. If I fill the string with 20
> characters I get no garbage. But when I write a name that's about 10
> characters long, I get about 10 characters of garbage.
>
> Im using Gnat as my Ada compiler if that makes a difference.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance.

btw, is this for a class?

-CRM