Ada 2005 Reference Manual

A.4.1 The Package Strings

The package Strings provides declarations common to the string handling packages.

Static Semantics

The library package Strings has the following declaration:

package Ada.Strings is
pragma Pure(Strings);

Space : constant Character := ' ';
Wide_Space : constant Wide_Character := ' ';
Wide_Wide_Space : constant Wide_Wide_Character := ' ';

Length_Error, Pattern_Error, Index_Error, Translation_Error : exception;

type Alignment is (Left, Right, Center);
type Truncation is (Left, Right, Error);
type Membership is (Inside, Outside);
type Direction is (Forward, Backward);
type Trim_End is (Left, Right, Both);
end Ada.Strings;