From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a13657a6f67ac494 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-12 17:23:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nnx.oleane.net!oleane!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Simple library functions Date: 12 Feb 2004 20:21:32 -0500 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <19401efb.0402121137.2a20b681@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1076635301 47250 80.67.180.195 (13 Feb 2004 01:21:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 01:21:41 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <19401efb.0402121137.2a20b681@posting.google.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list List-Id: Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5509 Date: 2004-02-12T20:21:32-05:00 scallassig@mailexpire.com (Harald Korneliussen) writes: > I have been trying to solve some programming excercises from > www.topcoder.com in Ada, just to compare it to Java and the other > popular languages. > > One problem I keep running into is the lack of common, useful > utilities in the libraries that come with Gnat & Ada. One thing is > that I had to write my own tokenizer. That gave me the opporunity to > emulate the String.split() method in newer versions of Java, OK*. Have you looked at Ada.Strings.Fixed.Find_Token? For really advanced tokenizing, you want OpenToken (http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/OpenToken/OpenToken.html). -- -- Stephe