Re: String filtering
- From: "Steve" <nospam_steved94@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:54:54 -0700
"David Trudgett" <wpower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I've been puzzling for a little bit over a good way to filter out
> unwanted characters from a string. In particular, I have an unbounded
> string and want to filter out of it all characters not in 'a'..'z',
> 'A'..'Z', '0'..'9'. So far I've only thought of tedious ways to do
> it. Is there an easy way to do it using the string handling facilities
> in Ada? I think I almost got there with the idea of using
> Maps.Character_Set, and so on, but I haven't quite pieced it together
> yet.
>
> Thanks.
>
> David
>
If you're just looking for simple code, I would suggest using the Index and
Delete functions in Ada.Strings.Unbounded. Something along the lines of:
loop
deleteIndex := Index( source, charSet, test => outside );
exit when deleteIndex = 0;
Delete( source, deleteIndex );
end loop;
It's not very efficient, but I think it is about as simple as you can get.
You can probably use Find_Token to get rid of consecutive chunks of
characters you want to remove, but it would be a little bit more messy (and
efficient).
Steve
(The Duck)
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> David Trudgett
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