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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: FAQ and string functions
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"Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota.adarose@verizon.net> writes:

> It sounds like you would enjoy using the GNAT.SNOBOL package. Although it
> comes packaged with the GNAT compiler, the source code is available, and you
> should be able to compile it with any Ada 95 compiler with little or no
> modification. This package will allow you to do string processing in the
> SNOBOL4 style, where indices are almost never used.

Actually, I think it uses 'Unrestricted_Access, which is not supported
by most Ada compilers.

It's actually GNAT.Spitbol, not Snobol.  I got it wrong in my earlier
post.

- Bob