Re: Exception problem

[Larry Coon <larry@fs2.assist.uci.edu>]

Michael Feldman wrote:

> You need
>              Skip_line;
> here, which advances the input beyond the line terminator.
> The problem is that if your first character is non-numeric,
> the exception is read and the character is left in the buffer.
> This is correct RM behavior; numeric input ceases when a character
> is encountered that can't be part of a numeric token. It stays in
> the input buffer because it might have been intended to be picked
> up on the next read.

Ahh, that's it!  I figured it probably wasn't advancing past the
character, and I guess that it makes sense that the Get call would
continue to try to use the character if it remains in the buffer.

> in Ada jargon, exceptions are "raised" and "handled".

Can you tell what language I use most? ;-)

Larry Coon
University of California
larry@fs2.assist.uci.edu