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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada String manipulation?
Date: 1996/04/02
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Date: 1996-04-02T00:00:00+00:00
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Darren said

":    I am looking for information regarding Ada String manipulation.  In
: particular, I would like to have similar String manipulation functions as
: are present in Perl.  Could someone point me to the right place, please?


See the Ada.Strings family of packages in the Ada95RM."

A perfectly reasonable answer, but in fact the string manipulation routines
in the RM are pretty weak.

One of my background tasks is to create a complete Ada 95 version of the
pattern matching facilities of SNOBOL-4 (in another life I created the
SPITBOL systems that are fast compilers for SNOBOL-4).

This would be really useful (and then we could get rid of the peculiar
use of Spitbol in building GNAT), but I am afraid this is not super
high priority!