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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Need Help On Ada95 Problem
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Date: 2012-02-10T09:30:10-05:00
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"Alex" <alex@foo.invalid> writes:

> This is a homework assignment and I think the translation lookup table
> is provided as a string, not an array.

As I understood the problem statement, the input and output
are of type String.  Writing the translation table is the
homework assignment, and String makes no sense for that.
But I might have misunderstood.

>... As far as I know, there is no
> way in Ada to make string indexing start at 0.

Well, "X: String(0 .. -1000);" creates a String starting at zero,
but that's beside the point here.

> You're right, an array of chars indexed starting at 0 would be better,

That's not what I had in mind, but I'll leave it at that.

Maybe the OP would like to post his solution when it's all done.

> but at this point of the course, I don't think they've covered arrays.
> I think they use strings to introduce the concepts and then go into
> arrays later.

- Bob