Re: Why does this input get "skipped"?

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 21/08/2016 à 02:36, John Smith a écrit :
>> How can I clear out that line terminator?  Another call to
>> Get_Line, but not save the input?
> Adding a Get_Line right after the Integer_Text_IO.Get did get me the
> result that I want.  However, why does this feel like a kludge?

Because you are reading something when you don't want to read something...

There is much more in Text_IO than Get_Line/Put_Line.

In your case, what you want is to be sure that you start a clean new
line, i.e. that the current column of input is 1. The solution is:
   set_col (current_input, 1)

If you are already on column 1, it does nothing, otherwise it will skip
to the beginning of the first non-empty line.

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