From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3fe2aac201210c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MSIE X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: reading a text file into a string References: <40f6bf21@dnews.tpgi.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:16:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.1.11 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1089994593 63.184.1.11 (Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:16:33 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:16:33 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2200 Date: 2004-07-16T16:16:33+00:00 List-Id: Steve wrote: > This gives you the content of the file as one raw string. Which may > or may not be what you want, but it is what you asked for. Right, including line terminators, page terminators, and file terminators, if they exist, and which vary from system to system (under UNIX, lines are terminated by LF; under DOS/Windows, by CR LF; perhaps someone can comment on what happens with this approach under VMS). Therefore, this approach is rarely used for production programs, which usually want a platform-independent representation of the file. -- Jeff Carter "If you think you got a nasty taunting this time, you ain't heard nothing yet!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail 23