Re: Weird string I/O problem

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:38:04 -0800 (PST), christoph.grein@eurocopter.com
wrote:

> I meant
> Here, Get_Line consumes the rest of the previous input up to and
> including the <Return>, in your case the rest is empty.
> (If you had entered 12.3 xxx<Return>, the contents of UBS would be
> " xxx".)

And a little advise for text processing:

1. Never read data items directly from files. Do lines first, as strings.
Then parse obtained strings.

2. Take care to remove trailing LF and CR at the line end. (You never know
if the text file do obey UNIX or MS-DOS conventions.)

3. Always verify that the whole line was parsed.

4. Do not use Unbounded_String, it is just an unnecessary overhead. Ada
2005 has Get_Line returning String. (In high-integrity software use Ada
95's Get_Line, that with the line size limited).

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de