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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Array Of Constant Strings?
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>If all the strings are always the same length, then using fixed length
>strings is even simpler. However, I would tend to be suspicious of such
>a requirement; things like that are almost always changed later.
  Plug: One of the packages I recently posted
(www.adapower.com/os/notify.html) is WORM_Str - Write Once Read Many
Strings.  It's exactly intended for situations where you never delete
from a table of strings.
  Name_Store : WORM_Str.Store_Type(Max_Strings=> some number
                                   Max_Characters=> another number
                                   Task_Safe=> boolean
  ...
  WORM_Str.Add(Name_Store, "Anthony", a);
  WORM_Str.Add(Name_Store, "Barbara", b);
  WORM_Str.Add(Name_Store, "Joe", c);
  etc, and
  Ada.Text_IO.Put(WORM_Str.Get(Name_Store, b)); -- or whatever

>array so later I can read in a strings and see if it matches one on
  WORM_Str also includes an internal subpackage that adds binary search
and sorted dump capabilities.
  WORM_Str is not OS, compiler, or library dependent, but just plain Ada.