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From: Michal Nowak <vinnie@inetia.pl>
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Date: 2001-12-29T22:54:44+01:00

On 01-12-27 at 15:25 Alfred Hilscher wrote:

>Michal Nowak wrote:
>> >Hour :=
>> >   Hour_Type'Value (Whole_Line (Current_Position .. Current_Position +
>2));
>>
>^^^^
>> There was another little one. It should be Current_Position + 1
>(assuming,
>> that hour is two digit, and Current_Position is position of first digit).
>
>Another way would be to search for the first digit and then search from
>there to the first non digit, so you can handle both, one-digit hours
>and two-digit hours:
>
>Hour :=  Hour_Type'Value (Whole_Line (First_Digit .. First_Non_Digit -
>1));

I just wanted the simplest way and was still thinking in terms of C-style
strings (if they exist). Today's morning in the bed I passed chapter 5
of Cohen's book (String handling). Yea, Find_Token should do the trick.

Mike