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Subject: Re: Problems with Ada.Text_IO and strings.
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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Date: 16 Oct 2003 00:00:51 +0200
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"CheGueVerra" <chegueverra@hotmail.com> writes:

> While I've bookmarked the link you posted, and am very thankfull, the thing
> is I don't believe I can use external libs for the homework, But at the same
> time if I have a String variable that is declared (1..20)  Well, I don't
> wnat the user to insert all blank spaces after his(her) name and not one
> more because it will enter the buffer of the other string !!  I want to
> understand, but I guess I'm seeing things to C or C++ like still, and have
> to reteach my brain how to think, but it's hard to grasp everything when
> your just entering Names and addresses
> 
> CheGueVerra

I'm not going to post working code and do your homework for you, but
here are hints you may find useful.

Hint 1:

declare
   S : String (1 .. 20);
   Last : Natural;
begin
   Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line (S, Last); -- User's input is S (S'First .. Last)
end;

Hint 2: if Last = S'Last, then you will want to call
Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line again to read the rest of the input, and
concatenate this to S.

Hint 3: recursive calls are your friends.

HTH

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.