From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: reading a text file into a string
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:58:41 +0100
Date: 2004-07-19T09:58:41+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40fb8c00$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: MrNoSpam-C3D3BB.18074619072004@news-server.bigpond.net.au
Dale Stanbrough wrote:
> generic
> with procedure Process (Line : String);
> Max_Line_Size : Positive := 1000;
> -- The maximum number of characters on any one line
>
> procedure Process_File (Filename : String);
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> it presumes a maximum line length, which is not so great, but
> is otherwise a very convenient generic.
But you could always override the default of 1000 with a more appropriate
value if you find it necessary.
Isn't there an arguement for defaulting to 250 characters/line? Can't
remember what it was off the top of my head but it is ringing a bell...
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2004-07-15 17:27 reading a text file into a string zork
2004-07-15 17:49 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-07-15 19:57 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-15 17:59 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-07-15 19:18 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-15 19:18 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-15 20:02 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-16 1:23 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-07-16 2:20 ` Steve
2004-07-16 2:26 ` Steve
2004-07-16 16:16 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-07-16 17:45 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-16 21:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-17 2:27 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-17 11:31 ` Mats Weber
2004-07-17 15:52 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-17 22:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-07-18 13:44 ` zork
2004-07-19 8:07 ` Dale Stanbrough
2004-07-19 8:58 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2004-07-21 0:17 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-21 21:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-22 22:34 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-23 0:49 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-23 21:56 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-24 0:34 ` tmoran
2004-07-24 1:16 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-24 1:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-24 15:14 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-26 23:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-27 12:08 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-27 23:24 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-29 0:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-29 0:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-07-29 7:25 ` Martin Dowie
2004-07-29 20:08 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-30 0:14 ` tmoran
2004-07-24 2:56 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-19 11:51 ` Ada2005 (was " Peter Hermann
2004-07-19 12:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-07-19 13:01 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-19 13:35 ` Martin Dowie
2004-07-19 17:22 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-19 23:50 ` Randy Brukardt
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