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Subject: Re: Weird Bug in Get_Line
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 22:44:05 +0200
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On 04/26/2017 09:32 PM, Brian Kolden wrote:
>
> That's fair, however, the functionality of Text_IO is currently inconsistent.
> I feel that it should either be reworked to always throw the exception or
> not. At the moment, it comes across as a logical error since it will only
> complain at a few, very specific line lengths.

What you've found is, as Wright pointed out, an error in GNAT's attempt to 
handle foreign files reasonably that has already been corrected, at least in the 
Pro version.

TBH, handling last lines without a line terminator as if they had a line 
terminator is not easy. Much thought was needed to get PragmARC.Text_IO, which 
handles Mac (CR), Unix (LF), and Windows (CR-LF) line terminators, to do it.

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