gnat 2011 - macbook

gnat 2011 - macbook

[RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com]

all

I have a program that reads a text file using text_io.get_line.

It would appear that on the mac, the line terminator  CR are not
digested by the get_line. On windows it seems that the CR/LF is
handled and are not returned to the application. The test data file I
am using originated in a Windows system.

Is this an expected behavior?

thanks, srini

Re: gnat 2011 - macbook

[Blady]

Le vendredi 25 mai 2012 12:13:23 UTC+2, RasikaSr...@gmail.com a écrit :
> all
> 
> I have a program that reads a text file using text_io.get_line.
> 
> It would appear that on the mac, the line terminator  CR are not
> digested by the get_line. On windows it seems that the CR/LF is
> handled and are not returned to the application. The test data file I
> am using originated in a Windows system.
> 
> Is this an expected behavior?
> 
> thanks, srini

Hi, yes it's clearly a drawback to deal with many different text formats for line terminator and  accentuated letters.
It should be processed automatically without care about format like many text editors guess the good format.
In 2005, I modified GNAT Text_IO lib with awareness to Mac CR line terminators and MacRoman characters.
See /Users/blady/Documents/Synchro/Blady/alpha.html
But I don't really use it because I switched to UTF-8 for my source code with Mac OS X.
And for remaining old Mac files I use TextWrangler to convert them.
http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

HTH, Pascal.

Re: gnat 2011 - macbook

[Blady]

Le lundi 11 juin 2012 21:44:27 UTC+2, Blady a écrit :
> Le vendredi 25 mai 2012 12:13:23 UTC+2, RasikaSr...@gmail.com a écrit :
> > all
> > 
> > I have a program that reads a text file using text_io.get_line.
> > 
> > It would appear that on the mac, the line terminator  CR are not
> > digested by the get_line. On windows it seems that the CR/LF is
> > handled and are not returned to the application. The test data file I
> > am using originated in a Windows system.
> > 
> > Is this an expected behavior?
> > 
> > thanks, srini
> 
> Hi, yes it's clearly a drawback to deal with many different text formats for line terminator and  accentuated letters.
> It should be processed automatically without care about format like many text editors guess the good format.
> In 2005, I modified GNAT Text_IO lib with awareness to Mac CR line terminators and MacRoman characters.
> See /Users/blady/Documents/Synchro/Blady/alpha.html
> But I don't really use it because I switched to UTF-8 for my source code with Mac OS X.
> And for remaining old Mac files I use TextWrangler to convert them.
> http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
> 
> HTH, Pascal.

With Internet URL should be better:
http://blady.pagesperso-orange.fr/alpha.html
And for French readers:
http://blady.pagesperso-orange.fr/creations.html#ada-text-io
Regards, Pascal.