From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: count_string program
Date: 27 Feb 2004 08:28:59 -0500
Date: 2004-02-27T08:28:59-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.35.1077890849.327.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <403db7ee$1_1@news.tm.net.my>
Cecilia Chew <cecilia@nowhere.com> writes:
> Hi all,
> I am doing a program that will count the input characters from user.
> There is a problem that I can't solve.
> Problem is : since I'm going to count the characters. So, I can't ask
> user how many characters they want to input. Compilation error come
> and mention that the string need to be constrainted.
> How am I going to constraint the string type since I don't know how
> many characters user going to input.
See Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line.
For that, you need to know in advance the maximum number of characters
the user might enter.
Or, if you are using GNAT, see Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Text_IO (not a
standard Ada package). Then you don't need a max in advance.
--
-- Stephe
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-26 9:10 count_string program Cecilia Chew
2004-02-26 10:17 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-02-27 3:13 ` Cecilia Chew
2004-02-27 11:00 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-02-26 15:43 ` Björn Persson
2004-02-27 3:19 ` Cecilia Chew
2004-02-27 6:49 ` tmoran
2004-02-27 18:29 ` Björn Persson
2004-02-27 13:28 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
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