Re: Newbie Questions about Get, Get_Line

[Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org>]

When do you know that the user input is done? Is it when the user hits
the Enter key terminating the line? If so, it should be pretty
straightforward to use Text_IO.Get_Line. That should discard anything
longer than your string buffer. If the input is shorter than your string,
the Last parameter to Get_Line tells you the last character input. Just
fill the rest of the string with spaces.

MDC

gressett@iglobal.net wrote:

> If the user input is shorter that the string variable, it will be
> padded with blanks.
>
> If the user input is longer than the string variable, the extra
> characters should be thrown away, never to be seen again.

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