Re: Reading from a .cfg file

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

Not being familiar with what a .cfg file is puts me at a disadvantage, but
here's a starting point: From Ada95, you have Stream files which are
basically files of 8-bit bytes which then you have to interpret yourself.
However, this is not backwards compatible to Ada83. (Are you *sure* you want
to support that?) From Ada83, you can kind of get there by using an
instantiation of Sequential_IO with your own data type to represent bytes.
(Upward compatible to Ada95) You then read the file one byte at a time &
translate it as needed. The Ada83 answer may have problems depending on the
OS and underlying file system. It was not intended for reading files as raw
bytes - but you can usually get there from here.

If you provide a bit more detail about what you want to read & how, we might
be able to give you a better answer.

MDC
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"J J. Rauch" <chemmie@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I am brand new to Ada and i need to write a package to read and parse
> data from a .cfg file.  This package has to be compatible with both
> Ada 83 and Ada 95 as it will be used with programs that are written
> with both versions.
> Any input would be very helpful because I am just starting off with
> Ada now.  I will be writing the package using Apex Ada 95 if that
> matters.
> Thank you,
> J. R.