Re: Newbie Q : Exception handling

[bt_are_shite@talk21.com (Stella)]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:39:10 -0500, "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
wrote:

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>"Jeffrey Carter" <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
>news:3C050DB2.4C327C3D@boeing.com...
>> Others have suggested adding Skip_Line. This will work, but I generally
>> advise using Get_Line to input an entire line, then decode it Get, when
>> the input comes from a human.
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>I agree with this advice completely.  It's too easy to forget to call
>Skip_Line when there's a problem with the input, resulting in an infinite
>loop.
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>As Jeff suggested, use Get_Line to read in the raw text, and then get the
>enum value by using the version of Get that reads from a string.
>
>This technique also allows you to pass meta-values as input, such as "first"
>or "last" or "exit", etc.
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>
>

Thanks, much nicer...

Stella