Re: How to detect new line from std_in?

["Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96" <condicma@PWFL.COM>]

Centaury <utopian@TM.NET.MY> writes:
>I'm writing a program that reads text from std_in whether by keyboard entry
>or file redirection.
>If I have something that looks like this;
>
>harlooo and welcome to
>the greatest circus
>
>my program would only recognise that there is 6 words, instead of 7. This is
>because to and the are joined together and become tothe as the data in my
>linked list.
>
>What is the keyword to detect new line (or is it something else??)
>
    It sounds like you are reading the input a byte at a time with the
    "Get" procedure and, given its semantics, it bypasses the end of
    line marker and starts at the next line of input. You should take
    a serious look at the package Ada.Text_IO. It might suggest easier
    ways to do this, such as reading in a whole line at a time and
    concatenating lines if you want to process the input as a
    character at a time.

    But, given that you want to look at it a character at a time, you
    will want to look up these functions in Ada.Text_IO: End_Of_Line,
    End_Of_Page and End_Of_File. If you're reading a character at a
    time, you probably need to look at all these functions to know
    when to stop.

    MDC

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