interpreting spaces......

interpreting spaces......

[att!news.cs.indiana.edu!uceng.uc.edu!uccba!ucqais.uc.edu!skilby]

I appologize if this is the wrong type of question for this group.  I am
using ADA on a MicroVAX II running VMS V5.4-2.  I have a program that
creates a data file of addresses.  The addresses are 3 to 5 lines.  My 
problem is that when the address is only 3 or 4 lines I fill the remaining
lines with spaces.  ADA, however, interprets the spaces as NULL.  Is there
some sort of compile flag that tells ADA how to interpret spaces?  Any help
would be appreciated.  Thank you in advance.


Steven 
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Re: interpreting spaces......

[William Loftus]

>From article <1991Aug30.162540.13221@ucqais.uc.edu>, by skilby@ucqais.uc.edu (
Steven Kilby):
> I appologize if this is the wrong type of question for this group.  I am
> using ADA on a MicroVAX II running VMS V5.4-2.  I have a program that
> creates a data file of addresses.  The addresses are 3 to 5 lines.  My 
> problem is that when the address is only 3 or 4 lines I fill the remaining
> lines with spaces.  ADA, however, interprets the spaces as NULL.  Is there
> some sort of compile flag that tells ADA how to interpret spaces?  Any help
> would be appreciated.  Thank you in advance.
> 
> 
> Steven 
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> Steven M. Kilby    Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Business Administration
> (Steven.Kilby@UC.EDU)           UUCP: {decuac,pyramid}!uccba!ucqais!skilby
> ARPA or BITNET: skilby%ucqais@uccba.uc.edu          PHONE:  (513) 556-7159

Ada doesn't ignore spaces.  In some cases it can read one line as two (when
using Get_Line and youyr buffer is not big enough), or ignore EOL (when
using Get).   However, you would probably be better using Direct_IO or
Sequential_IO to write out your records into a database, and Text_IO when
you need create a readable version.

Bill
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