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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: HELP!!!!!!
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> I would like to make a program in wich a string is given in input and the
> dimension of it is unknown (till someone insert it...)
> HOW CAN I DO?????? (without using hundreds of lines)
  function Fetch_Message return String is
    -- Does one or more Get_Line's to return an arbitrarily large string.
    Message : String(1 .. 80); -- usually adequate
    Last    : Natural;
  begin
    Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line(Message, Last);
    if Last = Message'last then -- there's still more, fetch it
      return Message(Message'first .. Last) & Fetch_Message;
    end if;
    return Message(Message'first .. Last);
  end Fetch_Message;

> Just a consideration, string's manage in Ada is not so beutifull: i can
> implement a server without problems but i cannot take a string in
> input...........
  When you find something simple seems hard to do in Ada, you must be
missing something.  When you find something hard is hard to do, there's
probably a better way in Ada.