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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:43:41 +0100
From: Gautier <gautier@fakeaddress.nil>
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Date: 2007-02-21T21:43:41+01:00
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Hello!
I was surprised to see Ada.Command_Line in GNAT (3.15p and 2006 GPL) serving 
the command-line argument "*.adb" indeed as N arguments, the list of files 
with an "adb" extension!
ObjectAda gives the argument as-is.
Who is right then ?
It's a annoying if the wildcard expansion is done a priori, because I would 
like to have it done by Ada.Directories, for a generic command-line tool...
Here, the test program:

with Ada.Command_Line;                  use Ada.Command_Line;
with Ada.Text_IO;                       use Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Args is
begin
   for I in 1..Argument_Count loop
     Put_Line(Integer'Image(I) & " [" & Argument(I) & ']');
   end loop;
   Put("Press Enter"); Skip_Line;
end;
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