Re: Text IO for files not using the standard line termination for the OS

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 11/18/18 4:44 AM, Shark8 wrote:
> 
> I think you have to do it character-by-character in this case.
> There's a library called PragmaARC (IIRC) that has Text_IO packages for non-native text, you might want to take a look there.

These are the PragmAda Reusable Components. Package PragmARC.Text_IO handles 
files with 3 kinds of line terminators:

    type EOL_ID is (DOS_Windows_EOL, Mac_EOL, Unix_EOL);
    -- Used to specify what line terminator to use on output
    -- DOS_Windows_EOL = CR-LF
    -- Mac_EOL         = CR
    -- Unix_EOL        = LF

For reading, it automatically handles EOLs of all 3 kinds, which may be mixed in 
the same file (though I've never encountered this). For output, when the files 
is created/opened, the desired EOL kind is specified.

The PragmARCs are at

https://github.com/jrcarter/PragmARC

HTH

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Jeff Carter
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