Re: Newbie Questions about Get, Get_Line

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <3A4DED82.C23CDB77@acm.org>,
  Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> wrote:
> straightforward to use Text_IO.Get_Line. That should discard anything
> longer than your string buffer. If the input is shorter than your

Uhhh....no, I don't think so. If Last = Buffer'last, then there is more
input from the same line, and Get_Line needs to be called again to read
it. (This can mean that a later call to Get_Line will return with a
length of 0.) For a good discussion of this, see
http://www.adapower.com/lang/get_line.html

If you meant that he could just pass in the maximum length buffer to
Get_Line, then call Get_Line again if nessecary in a loop with a trash
buffer to flush the rest of the line, then I think that would work.

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