Re: Newbie Questions about Get, Get_Line

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

Ted Dennison wrote:

> Uhhh....no, I don't think so. If Last = Buffer'last, then there is more
> input from the same line, and Get_Line needs to be called again to read
> it. (This can mean that a later call to Get_Line will return with a
> length of 0.) For a good discussion of this, see
> http://www.adapower.com/lang/get_line.html
>

Then I guess I stand corrected. :-) Maybe I was confusing the behavior
because of the reference to Skip_Line? As for my use of it - I always use a
string way bigger than what I'd think could be reasonably be used in most
cases. Then of course there are recursive techniques that can guarantee you
don't overflow the buffer.

MDC
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