From: "Grein, Christoph" <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com>
Subject: Re: A standardized pathnames package for Ada 2005?
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 07:23:48 +0100 (MET)
Date: 2002-12-18T07:23:48+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1040193062.25799.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
> Is there any work on / interest in a package to make it easy to synthesize
> and analyze compound (path) names?
>
> This crops up a lot, not only as Windows or Unix filenames,
> but with things like Tcl widget names.
>
> It might usefully be generic, on parameters such as the max. length of a
> nodename, the max. length of the full pathname, the nodename separator,
> whether there is a distinguished root nodename and its separator, etc.
>
> Should it handle little-endian pathnames, with the root at the right,
> like Internet domain names?
You could use a package like mine you can find on my homepage
http://home.T-Online.de/home/Christ-Usch.Grein/Ada
Look for Split'n'Join. Warning! The implementation is not optimized for
efficiency. I proposed it to Ada-Comment, but it hasn't found support. It was in
fact inspired by TCL/TK and Perl.
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2002-12-18 6:23 Grein, Christoph [this message]
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2002-12-17 19:04 A standardized pathnames package for Ada 2005? Bill Findlay
2002-12-17 18:45 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-18 6:06 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-12-18 11:14 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-18 16:28 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-12-18 20:57 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-12-18 14:50 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
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