Re: How to get a character?

[bglbv@my-dejanews.com]

Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> writes:

> Ben Barth <bebart@dave-world.net> writes:
> 
> > I was wondering if there was a way to get a character in Ada from the
> > user such as the getchar() function that can be used in C.  
> 
> Try Get_Line.  

Don't you mean Get_Immediate?

> > I'm trying to add a stop after displaying some information to the
> > screen so the user can press any key to continue with the program.
> 
> Yup.  Use Get_Line.

Nope. With Get_Line the "any key" had better be labelled "return" or
"enter".

> > I used the Text_IO.Get() function but that didn't seem to work very
> > well.
> 
> That function only returns only readable characters, and keeps consuming
> the line terminator until it finds one.  In this case, this is not the
> behavior you want.

Correct.