Re: Strings

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

So what did you find wrong with Bounded Strings in Ada95 ?

In article <3A4362BD.8E156868@vdu.org>, Jef Kelmo <jlk@vdu.org> writes:
> Hello,
> 
>     What I want is to figure how to get something like the C++ strings class,
> where I can have strings of various sizes, eventually building an array of
> strings. But I'm having trouble with a simple string itself. In C++, you have
> the string.length which goes to the null character, but from what I can
> figure, there is not the same thing in Ada. Is this true?
> 
>     Anyway, what I would like, as I mentioned, is to be able to create an
> array of strings that I can feed, after its creation, with data and be able to
> spit it back out to the screen with some simple way for it to understand the
> length of each string. I found the Get_Line(Input, String, Last) thing, but do
> I really have to keep track of that length for hundreds of strings?
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
> Jef
> 
> "Beard, Frank" wrote:
> 
>> Jef,
>>
>> >    I just want a usable string. How would I change the above code to do
>> > this? And could someone please point me to a site that gives actual,
>> > concrete examples of simple string use?
>>
>> While Ada.Strings.Bounded has some useful features, it goes a little beyond
>> "simple" strings.
> 
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