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On 1/10/22 5:19 AM, Marius Amado-Alves wrote:
>> Hate typing long things ... made one-liners S2U() and
>> U2S() if you can guess what those are :-)
> 
> This is totally line with the strict typing of Ada (no implicit conversion).
> Most of us abbreviate even more as "+".
> 
> Sorry, but I fail to see any reason the standard Ada.Strings Index functions would not work for your usecases. If possible please provide a succint explanation.

   It is suggested that the "needle" is a String string
   instead of an unbounded. I'll check that out and report
   once I finish my other project.

   Oh well, meanwhile, I just wrote one that DOES work
   with unboundeds.