From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.13.196.65 with SMTP id g62mr187103ywd.162.1474037026026; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:43:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.17.198 with SMTP id y6mr1018404oty.1.1474037025985; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:43:45 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!m9no664789qte.0!news-out.google.com!b4ni2679iti.0!nntp.google.com!u18no1028778ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:43:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=132.188.64.218; posting-account=MRPdDAoAAADUJmZVjnYaoafXFMadSeY1 NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.188.64.218 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Question on bounded / unbounded strings From: Olivier Henley Injection-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:43:46 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 1679 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2958581354 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31792 Date: 2016-09-16T07:43:45-07:00 List-Id: On a side note: If you just want to get the job done and do less low level work I suggest y= ou look into GNAT.Spitbol.Patterns. I used it to extract video ids from a Y= outube URL in some Ada server code and it saved me. The resulting code is s= mall, clean, maintainable and robust. Now could I have done better by unwra= pping my own matching procedure; maybe for speed but not for anything else. My two cents.=20 Here is a Gem covering it (toward the end of the article): http://www.adaco= re.com/adaanswers/gems/gem-26-2/