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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8f802583e5c84fa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: String filtering References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:47:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.221.154 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1127843276 67.3.221.154 (Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:47:56 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:47:56 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5199 Date: 2005-09-27T17:47:56+00:00 List-Id: David Trudgett wrote: It seems odd to do this: > New_Str : Unbounded_String > := To_Unbounded_String(Count(Str, Alphanumeric_Set)); if you're also going to do this: > New_Str := To_Unbounded_String(""); > Append(New_Str, Element(Str, Char)); If you allocate the expected length (and not overwrite that with a null string), then you can use Replace_Element. Is there some reason you're not doing this in place, using Delete? Is there some reason you're not doing this when you create the original string? -- Jeff Carter "You tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail 18