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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
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On 2003-10-01, Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:
> O.K. But my question remains, "Does anybody use them in *practice*?" 
> When I've needed a record field for something like Person_Name and 
> wanted some fixed allocation on it, I use a String and if/when I needed 
> to know where the string stopped, I use a "Last_Non_Blank ()" function. 

How does a Last_Non_Blank () function work? Have you initialised the
Strings with blanks?

Preben