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Subject: Re: Interfaces.C.Strings chars_ptr memory management strategy
From: NiGHTS <nights@unku.us>
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Date: 2018-05-26T05:44:59-07:00
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On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 10:52:55 PM UTC-4, Shark8 wrote:
> On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 4:22:13 PM UTC-6, NiGHTS wrote:
> > 
> > Here is just a quick and sloppy idea I had on how to tackle my problem.
> > 
> > str : chars_ptr := New_String ("                                     ");
> > 
> > I find the first line quite ugly. I'm sure there is an easier way to create a large empty string but I can't seem to come up with an elegant way to do it.
> 
> 
> Something like this?
> Big_String : chars_ptr := New_String( (1..200 => ' ') );

Thanks, It was on the tip of my brain I just for some reason couldn't put it together quite right.