Re: please help me!!!!!!

[Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>]

Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> 
> F wrote:
> >
> > I want to "clean" the keyboard buffer after a user action, for example i
> > have a piece of a procedure such as
> > ...
> > c:character; s:string(1..20); ind:integer:=1;
> > ...
> > while not end_of_line loop
> > get(c);
> > s(i):=c;
> > i:=i+1;
> > end loop;
> 
> It's hard to tell, since Ind is never referenced and I is undefined.
> However, if I is supposed to be Ind, what you're doing is writing
> Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line, except you raise Constraint_Error if the line is
> as long as or longer than S, and you don't skip the line terminator if
> it isn't.

I seemed to have tripped over my tongue while typing this. This code
raises Constraint_Error if the line is longer than S; Get_Line never
raises Constraint_Error. This code never skips the line terminator;
Get_Line skips the line terminator if the line is shorter than S.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter