Re: reference to a name variable

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

On Jul 28, 3:51 pm, Chrono <pablit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 jul, 08:03, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Pablo <pablit...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > I have an integer variable which I'd like to set dinamically equal to
> > > a value of a variable that I don't know at priori. Say as:
> > > I want to set My_Integer = IntegerValue(MyString),
>
> > My_Integer := Integer'Value (MyString);
>
> > --
> > -- Stephe
>
> Stephe, the idea is this really, instead of MyString is not a number
> string, it's a string whose name is the name of a integer variable,
> and it's the value of this variable what I want. This would work if I
> had a string like "123", so Integer'Value("123") would give me 123.
> When I try with a real naming string (instead of a number string),
> program keeps waiting for an entry so it suspends itself...

Like Dmitry said, a map (i.e. a container of name-value pairs, where
names are Strings and values are integers) seems the best solution.
See Ada.Containers.Hashed_Maps.

However I'm curious to know why you need this? What is the higher-
level problem you're trying to solve?

--
Ludovic Brenta.