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Subject: Re: Re-write a file in Ada
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:35:10 +0000
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Anh Vo <anhvofrcaus@gmail.com> writes:

>>    loop exit when End_Of_File( this_file );
>>      skip_line( this_file );
>>      count := count + 1 ;
>>    end loop ;
>
> This loop can be simplified by replacing exit when by not.

I think you must mean

   while not End_Of_File (This_File) loop

which isn't really much simpler than

   loop
      exit when End_Of_File (This_File);