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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/12
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What you do is read into a temporary String of length larger than any you
will encounter.  Then you use the value of the actual parameter supplied
for the formal parameter "Last" to take the appropriate slice from the
temporary string.
-- 
David C. Hoos, Sr.,
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Thomas Koenig <ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote in article
<5ds40o$rpo@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>...
> What's the best way of reading a line of arbitrary length in Ada?
> 
> Get_Line only works on Strings, not Unbounded_Strings.  Would I need
> to read in chunks of fixed length, then paste them together?
> -- 
> 74 a3 53 cc 0b 19
>