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Subject: Re: Is it possible to redirect text output to a String or Unbounded_String?
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Jerry <list_email@icloud.com> writes:

> Is it possible to redirect text output to a String or Unbounded_String
> rather than to a file?

I think you could use Ada.Text_IO.Text_Streams, except it's the wrong
way round (treat a file as a stream). If you could treat a stream as a
file you could use Text_IO to write to the file view and suck the stream
view out into whatever format you wanted. Maybe.