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Subject: questions on input/output
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I can't understand how input/output works.
1) on text files - not keyboard input - what's the difference between get_immediate and get ?
2) what means "consumming" characters, if indices don't change ?
3) can set_col be used or not, to go back in a line in an IN_FILE file ?
I get a good "END_ERROR" when I try that. what's the trick then ?

I did read the rm or whatnot, or other resources, but language doesn't help me... or I guess I do things the wrong way.

I need: to read a character, until some marker, then go back (set_col(stored_position)) and read again but store it like Get(variable, FILE); then go past the marker (set_col(FILE,col(file)+1)).