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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question -- dereferencing access
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:46:05 -0700 (PDT)
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On Mar 11, 9:26=A0pm, Tim Rowe <spamt...@tgrowe.plus.net> wrote:
> If I have an access variable, for example:
> =A0 =A0 =A0s: access string :=3D new String'("Foo");
> is there an easy way to assign from s to a string variable? Obviously I
> can't assign it directly, because access string is not string, so how do
> I convert? Everything I read says that dereferences happen
> automatically, but in this situation!

   Copy_Of_S : String :=3D s.all;

This also works when passing parameters, e.g.

   procedure P (Str : in String) is null;
begin
   P (s.all);

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Ludovic Brenta.