From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.20.195 with SMTP id p3mr6458622obe.3.1417277457999; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:10:57 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.41.147 with SMTP id z19mr839483qgz.1.1417277457970; Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:10:57 -0800 (PST) Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!h15no10204333igd.0!news-out.google.com!m4ni588qag.1!nntp.google.com!s7no2915021qap.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:10:57 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=86.176.91.16; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.176.91.16 References: <0a70a8a3-45fc-440b-999b-f9cfbc6ac7f9@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <2e084461-ddc9-4a39-91fa-414c3245f28f@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Help with an errant 'IF' statement please. From: Austin Obyrne Injection-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 16:10:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:191090 Date: 2014-11-29T08:10:57-08:00 List-Id: On Saturday, November 29, 2014 3:45:34 PM UTC, Simon Clubley wrote: > On 2014-11-29, Austin Obyrne wrote: > > > > Sorry for confusing matters, please continue if you will - Austin >=20 > Reduce the problem to a complete, compilable, test case program and > explain what the specific problem is with the test case you have posted. >=20 > I've seen what happens too many times when people post fragments of a > program instead of a complete standalone test case - and quite a bit of > the time the act of generating the test case results in the OP finding > the real problem. >=20 > There are at least a couple of issues in the second fragment - turn > it into a standalone program and you should find them. >=20 > Simon. >=20 > --=20 > Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP > Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world Thanks Simon, I'll try that - one of the doubts in my mind is that this program that I am= designing is an interactive program that 'gets' inputs from the key board = in an email encryption program and is not reading the plaintext characters = from an external batch file as I usually do. I am assuming that the comput= er stores these inputs in a holding buffer of some kind from whence it late= r encrypts the lot in one fell swoop. I suspect this may be a breeding gro= und for 'bugs' (unheard of up to now in about 15 years of usage). I will k= eep trying, Many thanks for your kind help to everyone - Austin.