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From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: nextc, getc and ungetc
Date: 1999/02/03
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In article <798dvo$loq$1@netra.msu.montana.edu>,
  orion@cs.montana.edu (Jeremy D. Mullin) wrote:
>  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?

If you want that kind of flexibility, you should look into using direct_io
instead.

T.E.D.

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