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From: Rob Norris <firstname.lastname@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Text Processing in Ada 95
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:56:31 +0000
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:09:09 +0000, Rob Norris <firstname.lastname@baesystems.com> wrote:

>
>Suppose I have a text file such as:
>
<cut>

Thanks everyone for the input.
I suspected as much that I would have to do some stream_io.

Unfortunately I can't do things any other way. The requirement is for a text file :(

I may investigate bounded string option as mentioned by Jeffrey C.