From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT: no more exception raised on illformed text file?
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:27:29 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2012-02-06T08:27:29-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a30e14f5-d403-43c1-8eea-ae5fab3bf7c2@f14g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jgorsc$ho9$1@dont-email.me
On Feb 6, 7:33 am, "J-P. Rosen" <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:
> Le 06/02/2012 08:08, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) a écrit :
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > Seems my FSF GNAT (*) does not raise an exception anymore when
> > encountering the last line of a malformed text file; that is, a text
> > file whose last line is not terminated with an end-of-line.
>
> > Is this on purpose?
>
> I don't know, but it is definitely acceptable, and many would view this
> as an improvement.
Right--in fact, we've had issues where a customer created a file with
Notepad and didn't hit RETURN at the end of the last line, and then
asked why a program wasn't reading the last line of the file. This
sort of behavior can be surprising and unwelcome.
-- Adam
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-06 7:08 GNAT: no more exception raised on illformed text file? Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-06 15:33 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-02-06 16:03 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-06 16:27 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2012-02-06 19:04 ` Shark8
2012-02-06 19:45 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-07 6:47 ` J-P. Rosen
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