Re: Fill string with multiple lines from standard_input

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

"chris.danx" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<emV69.1927$U06.25552@newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net>...
> Vincent Smeets wrote:
> 
> > I think that Stream_IO won't do any input processing, but with Stream_IO, I
> > can only read from a file, not from Standard_Input!
> 
> Standard_Input is a file of sorts.  Check the RM for more details.

Yeah, but its an Ada.Text_IO.File_Type. Stream_IO can only deal with
files it can open by name itself.

What we don't have here is a reason why the input processing that
Ada.Text_IO.Text_Streams is doing to him is a problem. The only reason
I could think of is that it actually contains data rather than text.
This may sound a bit cheesy, but its exactly what a lot of Unix
programs like gunzip do. So the person trying to rewrite Linux in Ada
might stumble over this issue. :-)

-- 
T.E.D. 
Home     -  mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison)
Homepage -  http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html