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From: yorkbiatch@hotmail.com (Isa)
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Subject: Reading text files with different data types
Date: 9 May 2004 17:09:03 -0700
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I'm trying to write a program to read points from a text file into an
array of records.
Each record corresponds to a line in the file, consisting of an
alphanumberic 6 character line, a space, a floating point number,
another space, then a final floating point number. (a name and 2
coordinates).

I'm completely at a loss as to how to read this in -- Ada.text_IO can
read it fine as a string - but I need to do calculation on the
floating point numbers(which could be with or without decimal points,
largest number to be stored  1000.00)

I don't think I can use streams - as it *must* be a text fine that is
read in, not a binary file.

Can anyone help me? I'm not asking for code - I just need a shove in
the right direction....

Thanks....any help will be VERY gladly appreciated