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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: C getchar() functionality in Ada
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:46:46 +0100
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Jeffrey R. Carter a �crit :
> Except that, given a file that ends with a blank line,
> Ada.Text_IO.End_Of_File may return True before the final blank line has
> been detected. The general rule is to not use Ada.Text_IO.End_Of_File,
> and handle the resulting End_Error.
> 
I agree. Moreover, it behaves better in the case of ill-formed files
(from an Ada point of view), such as those that have no terminating LF.

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