files and character arrays..

files and character arrays..

[devine]

Hi.  I was wandering if anyone had an example of a program that reads
in characters into an array from a file?  I have seen many programs
that read integers but I have not found a program that reads
characters into an array.
Thanks for the help.

Re: files and character arrays..

[chris.danx]

"devine" <devine@linuxmail.org> wrote in message
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> Hi.  I was wandering if anyone had an example of a program that reads
> in characters into an array from a file?  I have seen many programs
> that read integers but I have not found a program that reads
> characters into an array.

Do you want to read a whole lotof characters at a time, or one at a time?
The functions get and get_line from ada.text_io are useful for this.  Note
that get_line works for strings, while get will work for strings or
characters (and other things).  Check the ada reference manual section
A.10.1 or John English's online book (don't have the link for the book
sorry, try www.adapower.com) for more.

Reading characters from a file is really quite similar to reading integers
from a file.  The code might be (slightly) different, but the principles are
the same.  Look in JEs book, there's probably something in there!

HTH,
Chris