Re: How to reset 'end_error' using text_io?

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In <1993Aug27.023237.20864@seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman
) writes:

>In article <25h05c$3lv@neomimsy.cs.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) w
rites:
>>In article <fmoore.8@dseg.ti.com> fmoore@dseg.ti.com (Freeman L. Moore) write
s:
>>> So, how can io_exceptions.end_error on standard input be cleared
>>> permitting subsequent GETs to continue reading?
>>
>>text_io.skip_line I believe.
>>-- 
>Would that it were (portably) so. Trouble is, that the End_Error was
>raised because you bumped into EOF, which has a nasty tendency of causing
>the file to be closed. And since you can't reopen Standard_Input, you
>are stuck, at least in my experience (your implementation mileage may
>vary).

Hmmm.  you cant reopen standard_input, but you can reopen a file with
the same name as it (see below);

>My guess is that if you really need to do this, you could open the
>file as a named file associated with the device. Then you could (maybe)
>Reset it. We had this discussion on the net about a year ago when my

So is my solution portable??  anyone who can try it on their machines?
it works on the VAX:

with text_io; 
procedure enderror is
  buf : string(1..80); last : natural;
  f : text_io.file_type;
begin
  text_io.open(file => f,
               mode => text_io.in_file, 
               name => text_io.name(text_io.standard_input));
  text_io.set_input(f);
  loop
    begin
      text_io.get_line(buf, last);
      text_io.put_line("got " & buf(1..last));
    exception
      when text_io.end_error => 
        text_io.reset(f);
    end;
  end loop;
end;

thanks to R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com for suggesting reset(f)
instead of close(f), open(...)

thanks to Alex Blakemore for pointing out that i was getting
the name of standard_output instead of input (which was
the same on the vax normally)

--Thor
dlc@ddsdx2.jhuapl.edu