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Subject: Re: How to write "Hello" to a text file without a line terminator
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 08:46:18 +0100
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On 12/08/2016 06:05, Jerry wrote:
>> How does one write "Hello" to a text file without a line terminator?
>>
>> Put("Hello");
>>
>> adds a line terminator after "Hello".
>
> No, it does not, if you are talking about the standard library Put.
>
> It is Put_Line that does.

Dmitry, Jerry has obviously seen this behaviour under _some_ circumstances,
so perhaps we should think about what those circumstances might have
been!

If the 'Put("Hello");' is the last output before the output file is
closed, probably by ending the program, then ARM A.10.2(3) applies:

   For the procedure Close: If the file has the current mode Out_File or
   Append_File, *has the effect of calling New_Page*, unless the current
   page is already terminated; then outputs a file terminator.

and ARM A.10.5(16) for New_Page:

   Operates on a file of mode Out_File or Append_File. *Outputs a line*
   *terminator if the current line is not terminated*, or if the current
   page is empty (that is, if the current column and line numbers are
   both equal to one). Then outputs a page terminator, which terminates
   the current page. Adds one to the current page number and sets the
   current column and line numbers to one.

Use Ada.Stream_IO, as already suggested, or GNAT.IO - of course the
latter isn't standardised nd its behaviour might change.