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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: variable lenght strings
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:57:14 GMT
Date: 2004-10-24T18:57:14+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eWSed.474$kM.83@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba2f9c57.0410210952.438515d@posting.google.com>

fabio de francesco wrote:

> 1) Is it possible to use Get_Line with Unbounded and/or Bounded
> Strings?

Not in the standard, but many compilers come with packages to provide
this. GNAT, for example, comes with such a package.

> 2) If not, how should user input be managed when lines length isn't
> known a priori?

You can use a function such as PragmARC.Get_Line, based on an Ada
Letters article I wrote from 1989. The PragmAda Reusable Components are
available from

http://home.earthlink.net/~jrcarter010/pragmarc.htm

-- 
Jeff Carter
"You cheesy lot of second-hand electric donkey-bottom biters."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-21 17:52 variable lenght strings fabio de francesco
2004-10-21 21:22 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-21 22:42 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-21 23:14   ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-22  7:38     ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 12:30     ` fabio de francesco
2004-10-22  7:29   ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 13:01     ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-24 15:46       ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-24 19:54         ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-24 21:30           ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-25  4:02             ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-21 23:01 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-21 23:05 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-22  7:25 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 11:11   ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-24 15:43     ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-24 17:39       ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-24 18:37       ` Björn Persson
2004-10-25  7:30         ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-26  0:06           ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-26  1:53             ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26  8:49               ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-26 11:18               ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-26 12:48                 ` variable length strings Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26 16:11                   ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-26 18:50                     ` Björn Persson
2004-10-26 19:46                       ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26  8:43             ` variable lenght strings Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-10-26 13:15               ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-26 17:37                 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-26 18:07                   ` Hyman Rosen
2004-10-26 20:10                     ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 10:26                       ` variable length strings Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-27 10:39                         ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 11:47                         ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-28  7:18                           ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-27 11:50                         ` Larry Kilgallen
     [not found]                         ` <uwtxcla1n.fsf@obry.Organization: LJK Software <PTzuwe3GsIg6@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2004-10-27 12:12                           ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-10-27 12:58                             ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 13:04                           ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 14:54                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-27 16:38                               ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28  8:14                                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28  8:49                                   ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28  9:06                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28 16:07                                       ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28 22:05                                         ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-28 22:41                                           ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-29  1:11                                             ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-29  7:42                                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28 10:31                         ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26 18:13                   ` variable lenght strings Martin Krischik
2004-10-27 12:01                 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-10-26 17:46             ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-28 22:50               ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-28 23:01                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-29 21:52                   ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-29  8:48                 ` Dale Stanbrough
2004-10-29  9:11                   ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-24 18:38     ` Why these "Drop" parameters? (was: variable lenght strings) Björn Persson
2004-10-26  0:13       ` Randy Brukardt
2004-11-01  1:02         ` Why these "Drop" parameters? Björn Persson
2004-11-01 19:59           ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-24 18:57 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
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