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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3fe2aac201210c0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 MSIE X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: reading a text file into a string References: <40f6bf21@dnews.tpgi.com.au> In-Reply-To: <40f6bf21@dnews.tpgi.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:23:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.33.134 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1089941004 63.184.33.134 (Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:23:24 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:23:24 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2197 Date: 2004-07-16T01:23:24+00:00 List-Id: zork wrote: > while not end_of_file ( File ) loop > Get ( File, c ); > append ( text, c ); > end loop; This will work. As others have pointed out, Get skips line terminators. I'll assume you're not interested in them. A "better" way to do this is to use Get_Line: Line : String (1 .. Max); Last : Natural; ... Read : loop exit Read when End_Of_File (File); Get_Line (File => File, Item => Line, Last => Last); Append (Text, Line (1 .. Last) ); end loop Read; Get_Line returns when the String (Line) is filled (in which case Last = Max) or a line terminator is encountered (in which case Last < Max), whichever comes first; if a line terminator is encountered, it is skipped. You can also use a function such as PragmARC.Get_Line, which reads an entire line and skips the line terminator: Read : loop exit Read when End_Of_File (File); Append (Text, PragmARC.Get_Line (File) ); end loop Read; This is especially convenient if you want to add a special Character to indicate line terminators: Append (Text, PragmARC.Get_Line (File) & EOT); -- Jeff Carter "The time has come to act, and act fast. I'm leaving." Blazing Saddles 36