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From: orion@cs.montana.edu (Jeremy D. Mullin)
Subject: nextc, getc and ungetc
Date: 1999/02/03
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 I am writing a scanner in Ada and was wondering if there was a "peek"
function I could use to get a char from the input file but not move the
file pointer. I found definitions for nextc, getc and ungetc in the
text_io package but they are private declarations.
 Does anyone know of the package/methods I should be using or of any
resources on the web that might help me?

 TIA,
  J.D.
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