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From: Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>
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Subject: Re: Weird string I/O problem
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On Nov 25, 10:52 pm, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote:
> The following program misbehaves if the line
...
> Jerry

Thanks for all the help, everyone.

Making Skip_Line or Set_Col(Current_Input, 1) the first line of my
Get_Line works--Set_Col looks a little more general, so I'll use it.

I now see that Ada 2005 has a Get_Line returning Unbounded_String:
http://www.adaic.org/standards/05rat/html/Rat-7-5.html

However, it does not solve my problem because it, too, reads the
"dangling" line terminator which is left over from the Get on a Float.
And--I can't do anything about it (such as adding Set_Col) unless of
course I want to edit the source and thus subvert the intentions of
the smart people who figured all of this out.

So my problem is solved, but I'm still puzzled. All I'm trying to is
to very simple IO from keyboard and monitor to enter e.g. a numeric
parameter into my program as well as, say, a file name. So any Get on
a Float followed by any of the Get_Line routines will raise this
problem. It just seems odd to me that for such a simple application, I
have to remember to clear the dangling line terminator after  the Get
on a Float. (Or, in the present case, since I have easy access to the
code, to have the Get_Line do it for me.)

Thanks,
Jerry