From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a0833bbed8752e1f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: variable lenght strings References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 18:57:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.167 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1098644234 63.184.105.167 (Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:57:14 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 11:57:14 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5680 Date: 2004-10-24T18:57:14+00:00 List-Id: 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 14