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On 6/10/21 4:17 AM, Jerry wrote:
> Is it possible to redirect text output to a String or Unbounded_String rather than to a file?

This is an abstraction that does not exist in the language, presumably because 
it is not commonly needed. But you can easily implement this abstraction in Ada 
if you need it.

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