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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: Problems with Ada.Text_IO and strings.
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On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 06:25, CheGueVerra wrote:
> It's still not clear for me how to make sure, that when I have a String
> let's say:
> 
> S1 : String(1..10);
> 
> How can I make sure that the String that I will receive and treat will be of
> length 10 or less..

S1 has length 10, period. It is an array. How you do what you want
depends of your end of data condition. If it is end of line use
Get_Line. If it is end of file use a loop testing for End_Of_File. Etc.
In any case record how many characters were read and then use the slice
S1 (1 .. How_Many).