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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: String filtering
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 14:11:35 +0000 (UTC)
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David Trudgett wrote:
>       if New_Str'Last > 0 then

Why do you do this test? If New_Str'Range = (1 .. 0) then loop simply 
won't be 'run' and you should still be returning "".

-- Martin