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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: how to parse words from a string
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:31:07 -0800
Date: 2002-11-14T05:44:29+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <recvqa.c84.ln@beastie.ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1037243581.1145.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org

sk fed this fish to the penguins on Wednesday 13 November 2002 07:09 pm:

> 
> A string is a numerically indexed array of characters in
> simplest terms. So using a character as an index into a
> string should not compile under normal (Ada) circumstances.
> 

        And even if it did compile, I'd expect it (using a tab character) to 
basically be the same as    string(1..9) [presuming ASCII control 
code]... It definitely is not creating a dynamic length object for 
splitting text using a delimiter character.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-14  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-12 19:33 how to parse words from a string Sarah Thomas
2002-11-12 20:15 ` Stephen Leake
2002-11-12 20:16 ` Simon Wright
2002-11-13 10:17 ` Caffeine Junky
2002-11-14  2:10   ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-11-14  2:40     ` Caffeine Junky
2002-11-14  3:09       ` sk
2002-11-14  5:31         ` Dennis Lee Bieber [this message]
2002-11-14 13:40           ` Sarah Thomas
2002-11-14 14:56             ` David C. Hoos
2002-11-14 18:45             ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-17  8:40               ` Mário Amado Alves
2002-11-17 21:14                 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-11-18 11:00                   ` Mário Amado Alves
2002-11-18 19:23                     ` Jeffrey Carter
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