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Subject: Re: text_io and grid printing
Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 18:43:30 +0200
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On 05/17/2018 04:51 PM, Mehdi Saada wrote:
> I wanted to use set_col and set_line to print things as in a grid, (to print a matrix) but it seems I was wrong ?
> Set_Col (1); Put ("1"); Set_Col (2); Put ("2"); Set_Col (3); Put ("3");
> Gives "123"
> but Set_Col (2); Put ("2"); Set_Col (1); Put ("1"); Set_Col (3); Put ("3");
> gives
>   2
> 1 3

It's probably best to forget that Text_IO has those operations.

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