Re: Newbie Questions about Get, Get_Line

[gressett@iglobal.net]

Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:

>In article <k73r4toon9d6e0oi384t6240d32d7leohc@4ax.com>,
>  gressett@iglobal.net wrote:
>
>> What I would really find useful is a routine that could take a string
>> variable and fill it with terminal input with the following
>> properties:
>>
>> If the user input is shorter that the string variable, it will be
>> padded with blanks.
>
>Ewww. Why would you want that? Its soooo sloppy (not to mention
>wasteful). Plus it would significantly complicate dealing with the
>string later.

It's a fixed-length String variable; I have to pad it with something,
and in this case, the fixed-length string is a good match to the
requirements of the problem being solved. 

The real problem here is that the designers of the Ada.Text_IO package
quit too soon. There should have been an Ada.Interactive_IO which
would deal with more of the problems of screen and Keyboard IO in a
standard way.