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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: How to convert a C "char *" value to Ada string?
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:28:59 -0500
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"Victor Porton" <porton@narod.ru> wrote in message 
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> How to convert a C "char *" value to Ada string?
>
> There is
>
>   function To_Ada (Item     : in char_array;
>                    Trim_Nul : in Boolean := True)
>      return String;
>
> in package Interfaces.C, but it receives an array not a pointer (= 
> access).
>
> So I don't understand how to do this simple thing.

You didn't look far enough in the RM. Look at Interfaces.C.Strings and/or 
Interfaces.C.Pointers (B.3.1 and B.3.2, respectively). You probably want 
Interfaces.C.Strings.

                     Randy.