Re: Extracting Fields in Files

[jmoor@my-deja.com]

Would you believe that I am reading a variable length record created on
a Unisys machine whose records are in the following sequence:

record    size
  #       (bytes)

1          16
2         212
3          16
4         212
5          16
6         212
7          16
8         212
9          16

I open the file with the following statement;
  text_io_open ( file => tip0125,
       mode => text_i.in_file,
       name => "tip0125");

Every time I read the file with the following statement;
  get_line (file => tip0125,
      item => rec01,
      last => rec01_length,)

After each 212 byte record is read, the get_line goes through a cycle
where it believes a zero byte record has been read.  I can easily get
around the problem by testing "rec01_length" for zero bytes, but this
is evidence that I might not understand the nature of the "get_line"
command when reading a variable length file.


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