From: dennison@zippy.cc.ukans.edu (Ted Dennison)
Subject: Re: Reading a line of arbitrary length
Date: 1997/02/13
Date: 1997-02-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5dv7ea$epi$1@news.iag.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 330319F1.41C67EA6@innocon.com
In article <330319F1.41C67EA6@innocon.com>,
Jeff Carter <carter@innocon.com> wrote:
>David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote:
>>
>> What you do is read into a temporary String of length larger than any you
>> will encounter. Then you use the value of the actual parameter supplied
>> for the formal parameter "Last" to take the appropriate slice from the
>> temporary string.
>
>This assumes, of course, that you can define a "length larger than any
>you will encounter." In some cases, you cannot. This is still not a
>problem; see "Variable-Length String Input in Ada," _Ada Letters_, 1989
>May/Jun, which presents a function
Hmmm. I thought all unix (and VMS) shells had a command-line limit of 256
characters (or less). Is that not the case?
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-12 0:00 Reading a line of arbitrary length Thomas Koenig
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-12 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Rex Reges
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-19 0:00 ` Jean-Etienne Doucet
1997-02-21 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Rex Reges
[not found] ` <dewar.855848896@merv>
[not found] ` <33037A74.44AF@mds.lmco.com>
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dewar.855929857@merv>
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Rex Reges
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Gene Ouye
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dsmith-1302971702290001@dsmith.clark.net>
[not found] ` <33047186.463F@mds.lmco.com>
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-14 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-21 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-02-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Thomas Koenig
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
[not found] ` <dewar.857447653@m <JSA.97Mar4154951@alexandria>
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Really more GC talk (was: Reading a line of arbitrary length) Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-12 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Reading a line of arbitrary length Jon S Anthony
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-16 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-05 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-11 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
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