Re: Problem with unbounded string input

[Brian McGuinness <b.mcguinness747@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 6:09:18 PM UTC-5, Shark8 wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 12:59:18 PM UTC-7, Brian McGuinness wrote: 
> > I was having trouble reading unbounded strings, so I wrote a short test program and had the same problem. 
> > 
> >
> > When I compile this with gnatmake 8.3.0 under Linux Mint Debian edition 4 and run it, every so often when I type a line and hit Enter there is no response until I hit Enter again, and then everything typed before the first Enter is ignored. The rest of the time the lines I type are read and returned correctly. I am really puzzled by this. Is this a bug in the Ada library or am I doing something wrong?
> I've had this problem before, though it was using normal strings; IIRC the issue is that sometimes there's "stuff" in your input buffer and this can be handled [IIRC] via flush.

Ok.  Thanks for the help.

I used """" because I was thinking of later adding more text between the quotes, but your point is good.