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Subject: Re: Got me stumped any idea?
Date: 1997/10/15
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On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 09:28:34 -0400, Steve O'Neill
<oneills@top.monad.net> wrote:
[deleted stuff]
> direction but your didn't go quite far enough.  If you read up on
> Get_Line you'll notice that (in the case of reading from a file) it
> requires 3 parameters.  The first is the file handle, the second is the
> string into which the input is placed and the third is the number of
> bytes actually read from the file for this 'line'.
> 
> This should solve the problem at hand...
> 

I hate to see misinformation such as this handed out. Get_Line has 3
parameters:

File, type File_Type, the file object from which Get_Line reads

Item, type String, the string into which Get_Line places characters

Last, type Natural, which Get_Line sets to the index in Item into which
the last character was placed.

If no characters are placed into Item, Get_Line sets Last to
Item'First-1. Since Item'First may be as large as Positive'Last, Last is
clearly NOT the "number of bytes actually read from the file".

Jeff Carter  PGP:1024/440FBE21
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