Re: Assembling Complex Strings Containing Carriage Returns Prior to Using Ada.Text_IO.Put?

["Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>]

On 2014-10-22 07:57, NiGHTS wrote:
> I am converting some code from C to Ada which involves building a complex string containing '\n' characters which would eventually be displayed on the standard output console using the printf() function. 
> 
> I tried to copy the same strategy of building the string in Ada like this:
> 
> 
> Complex_String : Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Unbounded_String;
> EOL            : String := ASCII.CR'Img;
> 
> ...
> 
> Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Append (Complex_String, 
>     "Menu Title"                            & EOL & 
>     "-------------------------------------" & EOL
> );
> 
> ...
> 
> Ada.Text_Io.Put ( 
> Ada.Strings.Unbounded.To_String( Complex_String ) );
> 

I use

EOL : constant Character := Ada.Characters.Latin_1.LF;

successfully on unix and on windows, with gnat.

As many pointed out, you want Line_Feed, not Carriage_Return

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Björn