Re: Anyway to change the length of a string ?

[Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

genx54321@hotmail.com (Jim) writes:

> .... after you have already declared it before BEGIN ?
> 
> i am making a Hangman game with words up to 10 letters long.
> 
> now i declare a string which would be used in the program for the word
> which can be 1-10 letters.
> 
> so i say
> 
> s : string(1..10)
> 
> 
> but in the program i cant say
> 
> s:= "hello"

You can say 

S (1 .. 5) := "hello";

or

S := "hello" & "     ";

> because 's' has to be 10 characters long right ?
> 
> can i have it so i can change the length of 's' from 10 char to 5
> characters in the program and then input the value as "hello" ?

See the standard package Ada.Strings.Unbounded.

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