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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
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Subject: Re: Array help needed..
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "devine" <devine@linuxmail.org>
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To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: May 07, 2002 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: Array help needed..


> I trying to do this.  Read a file, check to see if their are words in the
> file and then put the words into an array.  So I used 'a'..'z' to get a
> character so when it hits a space that would be the end of the word, it
> would move to the next character after the space.
> 
Consider these possibilities:

  1.  The words may have capital letters and apostrophes -- i.e.,
      characters that are not in 'a' .. 'z', 

  2.  The spaces between words may not just be single space characters --
      they may have multiple spaces, tabs, periods, commas, and other
      punctuation marks.

  3.  What about numbers? E.g., if you have the sentence "there were 375
      people present." -- is 375 a word?

You should loook at the procedure Ada.Strings.Fixed.Find_Token which
allows you to find tokens that include a particular group of characters,
or that exclude a particular list of characters.