Re: GNAT not 'getting' CR or LF?

[bischoff@oracorp.com (Kurt Bischoff)]

In article <D1t6tx.G59@alsys.com> kst@alsys.com (Keith Thompson) writes:
>In <3e8079$552@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>> Get will certainly NOT see CR/LF etc, that is its spec.
>> For now, until Get_Immediate is implemented, the best thing
>> is simply to write an interface to the appropriate C routine getchar or
>> whatever.
>
>This might be true for an interactive application that needs to detect
>individual keypresses (or better yet, use the POSIX/Ada interface if
>your vendor supports it).
>
>For the application in question (a Fortran scanner), I think the best
>thing is just to use Text_IO.Get_Line and scan characters from the
>input string.  Ada's Text_IO is perfectly adequate for this kind of thing.
>
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>Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith)  kst@alsys.com
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How about bringing out the big guns and using AFLEX and AYACC?
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