From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why does this input get "skipped"? Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 07:00:14 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <07632b3f-f419-4865-a8f8-01b568a6883e@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 05:00:22 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9f50d1cab73ca6ba7c0d6efd4cf4d68b"; logging-data="17465"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19AjkTVzCLKbirkXszv38p4" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:hW2RSZKpDiWZIJYXBnQNQDS1Hs8= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31494 Date: 2016-08-22T07:00:14+02:00 List-Id: 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. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr