On Jun 24, 11:48=A0am, Tricky <Trickyh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Can I do what I asked, I suspect not, so Im thinking along the lines:
>
> type my_record_type is
> =A0 record
> =A0 =A0 name =A0 =A0: string(1 to 20);
> =A0 =A0 ....
> =A0 end record my_record;
>
> Basically, I want to be able to give the record name a constant string
> when it is delcared like:
>
> CONSTANT my_record : my_record_type :=3D ( name =3D> "Betty Swollocks",
> --length only 15, complains unless I pad to 20 chars.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
=
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
.......=
)
>
> Or am I just going to have to pad the name with whitespace to make it
> up to name'length?
If you want variable length strings you can use an access type to
define a string pointer.
eg: type string_ptr is access string;
Your record would look something like this:
type my_record_type is
record
name : string_ptr;
....
end record my_record;
To set the string you use the "new" keyword to allocate memory.
my_record.name <=3D new string'("Betty Swollocks");
When you are done using my_record.name, you deallocate the memory
using the deallocate procedure.
Read up on access types.
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