Re: Using records properly.

[McDoobie <nospam@nospam.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote:

> In article <86Rr6.57913$W05.11839272@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com>, McDoobie
> says...
> >type people_entries is record
> >        person_name : String( 1..80 );
> >        person_addr  : String( 1..80 );
> >        person_num  : String(  1..80 );
> >        person_mail  :  String( 1..80 );
> >end record;
> >
> >
> >Now, I know how to store the information in the record...
> >
> >
> >NewRec : people_entries;
> >
> >NewRec := person_name(aName);
> 
> The syntax would be something a bit more like
> NewRec.Person_Name := aName;
> (assuming aName is an 80 character string)
> 
> >NewRec := (aName, aAddr, aNum, aMail);
> That'll work too (again, assuming all of your a* stuff are 80 character
> strings).
> 
> >I'm a little fuzzy on this.
> You should really try to get hold of a decent Ada book. This is pretty
> basic stuff, and I doubt you want to try to learn *all* the basics one
> question at a time in newsgroups. (right?)
> 
> 
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Your right. Heh.

I've pretty much been using the online tutorials and documentation to pick 
up this stuff.

Looks like I'm off to Barnes and Noble. There have been some good book 
recommendations here. I'll look them up.

McDoobie


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