Re: Reading data from file

[Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 03/05/2014 01:33 PM, Laurent wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 4. März 2014 22:42:37 UTC+1 schrieb Niklas Holsti:
>
>> So the problem is that after reading the ID you must
>> move the read point to the start of the "name" line.
>> Add a Skip_Line between the Get(ID) and
>> the Get_Line(Name).
>
> The Skip_Line works only if I use it together with:
>
> Ada.Text_IO.Get (File => Import_File, Item => Temp_Record.Name);
>
> and this only if I put spaces after "test" to a total length of 30 chars.

If you reread what Holsti wrote, and put the Skip_Line where he said to put it, 
not where you're putting it, it should work fine.

> Until now I like Ada very much but this odd behavior
> of Ada.Text_IO.Get/Get_Line drives me crazy.
>
> The integer/enumeration getters aren't so picky.

Most of us who use Ada professionally rarely use those packages for input. 
Instead, we get a line at a time using Get_Line and convert values using 'Value, 
with an exception handler to handle incorrect input. This avoids line-end 
problems such as you have encountered.

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