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Date: 2004-02-27T08:28:59-05:00

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.

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-- Stephe