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From: "Jeffrey R.Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org.not>
Subject: Re: problemn with string'last
Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 01:27:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u343c8$2aep2$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ly4joq33ug.fsf@pushface.org>

On 2023-05-05 22:44, Simon Wright wrote:
> Manuel Gomez <mgrojo@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> El 5/5/23 a las 18:33, Simon Wright escribió:
>>> Manuel Gomez <mgrojo@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>>      Data         : constant String         := "  PLUS_STRING    :
>>>>      CONSTANT STRING(1..3) :=(1 =>'""' , 2 =>'+' , 3 =>'""');";
>>> '"' is a single quote character.
>>> """" is a string containing one quote character.
>>
>> Yes, and "'""'" is a string containing a quote as an Ada character
>> (when displayed).
> 
> Oh, I see. Ugh.

As you have discovered, using doubled quotation marks within a String literal 
can be significantly less clear than concatenating the quotation-mark Character 
with the rest of the String.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"All citizens will be required to change their underwear
every half hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside,
so we can check."
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      reply	other threads:[~2023-05-05 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-05  9:51 problemn with string'last Daniel Gaudry
2023-05-05 10:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-05-05 11:17 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-05-05 12:08   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2023-05-05 16:28   ` Manuel Gomez
2023-05-05 16:33     ` Simon Wright
2023-05-05 18:18       ` Manuel Gomez
2023-05-05 19:52         ` J-P. Rosen
2023-05-05 20:44         ` Simon Wright
2023-05-05 23:27           ` Jeffrey R.Carter [this message]
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