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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,5d47c120235ba244,start
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Text_IO.Get_Line
Date: 1997/05/17
Message-ID: <dewar.863917102@merv>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 242233610
References: <19970517194301.PAA19410@ladder02.news.aol.com>
Organization: New York University
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-05-17T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


RE Hixon says

<<This may have a simple fix, but it has me perplexed.  I have used several
different Ada compilers (Ada 83 and 95) on different types of Intel based
systems and keep getting the same results.  When I use Get_Line and enter
more characters than the specified string will hold; the remaining
characters stay in the input buffer waiting for the next Get.  This causes
an exception to occur.  My fix is to execute a Skip_Line after each
Get_Line, but this seems inefficient.  Any ideas, or reasons why I am
getting these results?>>

I don't quite understand what is perplexing you, but the behavior you
describe as perplexing is exactly what is required in the Ada 95 RM, so
it is hardly surprising that "several different Ada compilers" behave the
same way. (Ada 83 is the same as Ada 95 here).

Perhaps you could describe what you want to achieve, and then maybe we
can suggest how to program it using the features in Ada :-)