From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM,STOX_REPLY_TYPE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 From: "Arie van Wingerden" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: Question on bounded / unbounded strings Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:35:32 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 16.4.3528.331 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V16.4.3528.331 Message-ID: Organization: Powered by cheapnews.eu Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder3.usenet.farm!border03.ams.abavia.com!feeder04.abavia.com!abp002.abavia.com!news.cheapnews.eu!not-for-mail Injection-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:35:33 +0200 Injection-Info: news.cheapnews.eu; mail-complaints-to="abuse@cheapnews.eu" Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31798 Date: 2016-09-17T18:35:32+02:00 List-Id: Thx. Will have a look there ... "Olivier Henley" schreef in bericht news:fb5a67b7-0c16-49b9-ada3-f07bcaef8ba7@googlegroups.com... On a side note: If you just want to get the job done and do less low level work I suggest you look into GNAT.Spitbol.Patterns. I used it to extract video ids from a Youtube URL in some Ada server code and it saved me. The resulting code is small, clean, maintainable and robust. Now could I have done better by unwrapping my own matching procedure; maybe for speed but not for anything else. My two cents. Here is a Gem covering it (toward the end of the article): http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems/gem-26-2/