Re: Fill string with multiple lines from standard_input

["Vincent Smeets" <No@Spam.org>]

"Stephen Leake" <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
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> "Vincent Smeets" <No@Spam.org> writes:
>
> > As a second release, I want to rewrite my program to work line by line.
This
> > way, I will need to preserve more state in between the processing of the
> > lines, but this will too need the <CR>s as they are in the input stream!
>
> What is the advantage of working "line by line"? If it is to reduce
> the memory usage, then a better approach is to define a stream buffer
> size, and handle the end-of-buffer condition appropriately. "lines"
> don't mean much in this kind of application; in fact, as you have
> seen, using Ada.Text_IO to read lines actually breaks the application.

This will bring be back to my other problem. If I use the streams from
Ada.Text_IO.Text_Streams I will lose the <CR>s.

I can't use Ada.Streams.Stream_IO either because I can't read from the
standard input with that package. You can only read from files that are
opened first by Stream_IO.Open call. I would need the following function
like in Text_IO:
    function Standard_Input
        return Ada.Streams.Stream_IO.File_Type;

Thanks,
Vincent