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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);

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   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;