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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,b34ecb04700058dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-18 11:24:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DD93E75.6060909@acm.org> From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: how to parse words from a string References: <3DD3EF12.3010009@acm.org> <4a4de33a.0211170040.1b8de118@posting.google.com> <3DD806CF.9090204@acm.org> <4a4de33a.0211180300.1eeacc85@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:23:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.9.177 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1037647430 63.184.9.177 (Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:23:50 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:23:50 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31065 Date: 2002-11-18T19:23:50+00:00 List-Id: M�rio Amado Alves wrote: >>nor handle words separated by horizontal tabs. > > > Of course it does. See A.3.2 (23). Sorry. I omitted "only" between "separated" and "by". Certainly what you posted works for a certain set of requirements that could be called "parsing words from a file", but not for the OP's stated requirements. -- Jeff Carter "When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled." Monty Python and the Holy Grail