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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Re-write a file in Ada
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On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:25:45 -0800, comicfanzine wrote:

>>Store your strings in one of the containers from >the Ada.Containers
>>library.
> 
>>-- Brian
> 
> Thanks anyway but , that isn't what i asked .
...
> There is a real issue , if this can't be done without your package .
> 
> Plus , here :
> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Libraries/Ada.Containers
> 
> It Say : " This language feature is only available in Ada 2005 " .

More accurately, this isn't a standard language feature prior to Ada-2005.

Container classes or something very like them were available earlier : 
you might take a look at the Booch Components (which are probably 
compatible with Ada-83) or even the Ada precursor to the C++ STL 
(Stepanov?).

If you must reinvent the wheel, that's OK, but you'll have to take care 
of low level details like initialising the line count correctly yourself.

-- Brian